They had snow! And Christmas songs! And I managed to both not drink much *and* enjoy myself. That makes me feel good again, and after the generally draining day I've had, I really needed that. I'm glad I went, and I'm very grateful to Danny, Tony, Reena and James for just being there and being so nice.

It really does feel like the end of term though, which seems strange, given that I'm not actually going anywhere for a couple of weeks. The events of each term do just usually seem to all come to a head at the end of Week 10 though, and there's nothing you can do about it. I guess the incredibly intense social environment that is University life can only exist for ten weeks at a time, and after that everyone just needs a break from it all. And apart from still having random annoying bits of 'unfinished business' that I still need to deal with, a break sounds pretty good to me.