Living in Manchester can sometimes be incredibly depressing, when you look out of the library window to see the rain pouring down, where it's so dark at midday it might as well be midnight, and when you know that at some point before they close the library for the day, you will have to brave the rain and the bracing wind to make it back home...where the rain and bracing wind rattles at your window and whistles through the numerous holes in the walls.
However, I've decided that being a university student in Manchester when its sunny is actually worse. Because now when I peer over the mountain of books I've yet to read, I look out of the window and see people walking around in shorts. And dresses. And flip-flops. And sunglasses.
All of this whilst i'm shivering in some dark corner of the library where they don't seem to understand that a typical library temperature of 14 degrees is not warm enough to sustain human life and will not make me work harder. And to top it all off, once i'm forced out of the library through hunger i have to suffer the heat with too many layers on and too much to carry.
There is nothing better than a good bit of sun, unless you're dressed for winter (also known as the John Rylands University Library). And as the weather gets better, the deadlines get worse...and the idea of sitting in a park, with a glass of Pimms seems further and further away from reality.
But come mid-may, University will be over, and summer/the rest of my life will begin.
Hopefully a few months of sun to make up for the sheer lack of it in the past three years will sort me out :)
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