After the election that took the world by storm, many citizens have taken to the streets to demand change. I have to commend those people as some of the strongest individuals here right now, because I didn't even want to get out of bed on Wednesday, and I'm a political science major. With that said, I spent a large part of the election cycle chronicling its events online, but this week I just can't. Maybe next week. For now, here's a list of cringe-worthy things I'd rather be doing than having to think about the state of our union.

5. Spend An Eternity Sitting Through Awkward Family Dinners

Granted, a lot of people's anxiety in the Thanksgiving season stems from awkward political chit chat. We all have that hyper-conservative aunt who talks openly about "the gays" or that one relative that just doesn't understand that some views can't be talked about in front of Grandma who was born during the Great Depression and doesn't know what the internet is. But, there are some family dinners that are just unbearable for no reason other than the fact that family is complicated and stressful.

4. Have Five Back-To-Back Periods

It's every person with a uterus's worst nightmare, but I'm willing to take one for the team if it means a sweet reprieve from the living nightmare that the political world has brought me in the last year. Mother Nature, if we have a deal, hmu so I know to stock up on those Playtex sample packs for free in Student Health Services. But. remember, some girls bleed constantly anyway because of hormone imbalances. Wouldn't it be great if there was some, I don't know, government agency maybe, that could make it possible for those women to have access to a magic pill to stop that? Oh yeah, that exists, it's called birth control, an easy fix available from tons of places called Planned Parenthood, an organization our new Vice President wants to shut down for good.

3. Walk All The Way To Florida To Personally Flip Off Every Third Party Voter In The State

You know you secretly want to do this- some less secretly than others. Let me be the first to admit it, if you voted third party in Florida or Pennsylvania particularly, I have a huge bird to flip to you, but I'm already based in Pennsylvania, so this state is covered. It's just my friends to the south that still need to feel the heat of my wrath at this point.

2. Write The Senior Thesis I've Been Procrastinating On For Three Weeks

I wish I could say the length of time that I've been procrastinating in that subtitle was a lie, but unfortunately, I don't have the luxury of lying through my teeth for two consecutive years and still become the most powerful man in the world. The more I neglect this thesis, the more library books about cultural heritage law pile up and collect dust on my desk, so let's wrap this up, shall we?

1. Write This Listicle

1 down, 4 to go. Thanksgiving and invasive questions about how school is going, here I come!