Singles Awareness Day and a brilliant idea that would never happen

In my glass: Pomegranate and Raspberry juice
From my iPod: Good Feeling, by Flo Rida
From my Bookshelf: Anatomy (surprise, surprise)
Outside: Dull, grey, wet
My Mood: Meh.
Todays Hairstyle: Knot bun with my 5" Glass Octopus hairstick, by Emergent Glassworks

Supposedly, Singles Awareness Day is the day after Valentines day.  I've never really been a fan of valentines day. I've never recieved a card, or flowers, or gone out for a nice dinner with someone. In fact almost every year I've been single on Valentines day. And I know I'm not the only one out there.
For some people, Valentines day is a day of happiness, and romanticism, but for plenty others of us, its a reminder that, in amongst the sickeningly sweet pink, and hearts that adorn all the shop windows we pass, and even cover that treat of a cake you have with your coffee, we are still alone.
We have our friends, but of course, that isn't what Valentine's day is seen as - its seen as a day for couples - something in which unnattached people often don't feel they can participate in.
I don't know about the rest of you single people out there, but today AND tomorrow, I plan to just have a normal day, go to the NaNo group tonight, and have a chat and a can of coke in the mess tomorrow night (we're going away for the weekend again), on the assumption that I'm not on guard duty or something.

Meh. I don't buy into all this commercialised stuff. I am a pagan. I don't celebrate Christmas (though my family does), nor easter, nor the vast majority or the commercialised holidays. Even Hallowe'en (I celebrate Samhain - the end of summer, and of the harvest, the start of the dark half of the year, the dying of the sun-god, the thinning of the veil between the worlds, and so on) is way over-commercialised for my liking. Trick-or-treat seems odd to me - we had guising instead, where the kids would dress up,, taking lanterns (traditionally turnips, but more often pumpkins because there were less cut fingers when carving them) and go from door to door, singing, or telling jokes in return for sweets or cakes. It originated from the celtic custom of "souling" on All Hallows Day (the term Hallowe'en comes from the old name of All Hallows Eve) where people would go from house to house singing and saying prayers for the dead.

About our brilliant idea - we've been doing a project n depression, and it has so far being going okay. The first draft has to be compiled and sent into our tutor by the end of the uni day tomorrow, and its hard keeping up with everything whilst still keeping anatomy ticking over (theres a test next week), but we're just about keeping on track. Anyway, the weather here has been horrible the last couple of days - the burst of sunshine didn't last longer than half a day, and we've had rain flooding down since in between spells of dullness. We had been talking about seasonal affective disorder and its effect on depression. Apparently, according to our tutor, as many as 49% of people in the northeast of Scotland (that is, right where we are) could get at least some symptoms of seasonal affective disorder, especially around now, in February - the No Money Month, and the one which usually has the worst of weather.
We got onto talking about those lights - you know the ones, the "happy lights" which are meant to help with sadness and depression in the winter months (this was just a random lunchtime discussion, y'all), and looking outside, someone said "Why don't we just have tunnels underground, so we can avoid the crappy weather in the winter?"
The reply to that was "Why don't we have the "Happy Lights" in the tunnels?" Yeah, yeah, nice idea - avoid being soaked to the skin or sliding on ice when walking between lectures - but never going to work. How on earth would you ever manage to build such a massive network of tunnels underground to link all the uni buildings without compromising the structure of the buildings above. Not to mention the cost of the whole project.
But it got us thinking, we wondered, why not paint all the rooms white (instead of that strange beige and odd blue colours a lot of the buildings have) to reflect more light, and put some "Happy Lights" in the light fixings? Now that could make a difference. It would still be an expensive project though, so it will likely never happen. Which is a shame, but we can all hope.
On another note, I should really try and find another bulb for my bedroom. Since it last went on me, I could only find energy-saving bulbs in the shops, and its so dull when I turn it on. When I get up in the morning, I need brightness, or I feel grouchy and moody all day. I managed to source a normal one for the hall, so I might go out and get another, because I would rather have a bulb that uses a little more electricity (like 20 watts more), and be my normal self in the mornings.