exacerbating the problem

one thing that i've noticed over the past two days is the need to turn everything's VOLUME WAY UP. phones, tv, computer.. even though i'm sure i just need to readjust from the past week's LOUD events, i'm still getting paranoid about the buzzings i hear now and then, and having to turn everything to 2x normal volume.
the fact that that ringtone meme [did i really not blog that? weird] was so recent isn't helping anything, either. so not only am i a quad, but i'm going deaf, too! [insert 100 rabbit joke here, yea thx]