Why is it the first couple of days back at work always drag? It's been so difficult to get out of a nice warm bed and make my way to eight hours of tedium. Plus the fact that I was ill on the last two days before Christmas basically means that I need to make up hours for which I have have already been paid for. How depressing is that?

Or maybe it's the fact that your Christmas decorations look a tad gaudy after the fact - I know some people who took them down on new years day, whereas until today, our uber-trendy fiber optic tree flickered in the background and the Christmas wreath keeping me awake in the a scraping against the front door with the storms and winds that have been plaguing us on the foot of the isle. We eventually took down the decorations in work on Thursday as it distracted us all from the thousand and thousands of student paper records that had to be sorted and alphabetasized. And whilst the fairy lights are still up, the tinsel is in a sorry mass in the corner of the room, taking up dust and looking half shaved as the sellotape had inevitably ripped off the tin in chunks and sections.