Are you TRYING to bring yourself down? LOL!
But see, no matter HOW bad my life gets, the characters in Hardy always have it much, MUCH worse. So...it's comforting stuff!
Heh...I went through a horrible, horrible down time when I was in Germany. I had just started my second tour, all my friends were leaving, I was terribly homesick and lonely, and I just had trouble even functioning...all I wanted to do was sleep. But I read Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure and suddenly realized what a WONDERFUL life I had!