It’s that time of year again. It’s cold outside and it gets dark early, so that it feels like night time even when it’s only 5:00pm. The year is coming to it’s close- the end of semester assignments coming in, said assignments being set for a hand in for January 2011, January exam dates being announced. Christmas is being advertised for everywhere, the Christmas themed displays going up in shop windows. Christmas. When did it become November? November 20th. It’s not long to go now. And so another year will pass.
This time of the year is the worst. Homesickness always sets in around mid-November and lasts until the new year. The darkness and the miserable weather does nothing to help. I’m lonely and I’m sad. The smallest things are enough to trigger ridiculous over the top reactions: I am constantly on the verge of tears. I am nostalgic- my thoughts constantly going back to the past, to home.
I hate this time of year.