deep winter is coming

sunlight in the morning makes you feel glad. if it's sunny, you risk being hours late to work, just to walk through green park on the way. take the longer tube journey. energy drains away at 4 in the afternoon anyway. you can't conceive of evening and home without a drink in between, because tomorrow will also have the short few hours of light. that too if you're lucky and everything isn't uniformly grey from dawn till 4 pm dusk. winter warning bells go off in my head. last year i may have escaped suicide narrowly, but this year i have a plan. escaping to the southern hemisphere for the worst of it. and before that, there are christmas parties. yes, i've outsmarted nature.
the bartender gave me 2 drinks on the house today. perhaps i'll pay for it soon. brrr...