Drop it down...
It was a strange sound. It was like the sound of birds knife-fighting in a dark alley in the middle of the night...
It was accompanied by a sharp pain rounding my eye. Radiating down into my cheek, around to my ear, right to the back of my skull. Throbbing.
Now I'm sitting in my apartment, surrounded by noise: a Drum 'n Bass beat, the XBox, and two energetic, overenthusiastic videogame hockey players shouting expletives at the screen. And my fucking head hurts -- not severely, but constantly.
Nothng can make it worse. Nothing can make it better.
I think that it would be almost too melodramatic to say:
This is a beautiful thing. A microcosm of my life.