first flash of eden

i am having the sort of bad day that started at 12mn, and is progressing towards deeper levels of hell as every minute goes by. and it's not even 3pm yet. it's the sort of bad day that can't even be soothed by listening to some bob dylan because my iPod, for some reason that i know nothing about, won't turn on.
normally, i would just blow off days like these and go and hide under a blanket in my room, fall asleep watching tv (fictional people going through crises makes me feel better about myself), and then wake up to a new day with newfound hope, that song from Wizard of Oz playing over and over again in my head like some twisted, yet appropo soundtrack to, what i hope, will be the new beginning to the rest of my life.
no, not somewhere over the rainbow. the happier song, the one that plays right as they reach the emerald city, "you're out of the woods, you're out of the dark, you're out of the night / step into the sun, step into the light / Keep straight ahead for the most glorious place / On the Face of the Earth or the sky / Hold onto your breath, Hold onto your heart, Hold onto your hope / March up to the gate and bid it open". why i typed down the lyrics to whole song, i don't know.
but, as i was saying, normally i would just take cover and hide from the cruel world on days like this, but not tody. nope, not today because today is special kind of bad day that you can't run and hide from, because then it'll turn into a bad week, and then if you run from those, it turns into a bad month, and then a bad year, and before you know it, you're in some white padded cell and your best friends have weird names like Prozac and Xanax.
Yes, today is a bad day. I could act even more like a self-pitying victim by saying "Why is God punishing me?" but then i'd just be disproving the theory that i've had for years and that is that the universe is really a living and breathing thing with a vindictive nature and a surly disposition, and that's the cause for days like these.
it's happened to us all...we wake up to a new day and then all of a sudden, it's like the whole world just turned upside down, and everyone's adapted to it except for you. and you're clinging the ground because you believe that you'll fall into the sky if you don't.