The wonderful DC weather knocked out our power, adding an extra margin of misery to this last primary night.
Where's the hope?" According to Paraskevi Androni, 26, an unemployed engineer whose short-term contract with the privatized state carrier Olympic Air expired recently, the abolition of the extra pay would bring misery to workers and businesses alike.
And even such late entries as the novelist Ford Madox Ford, who wore his artistic hair shirt extra scratchy, piling up miseries and misdeeds: bankruptcy, depression, incarceration, agoraphobia and infidelity (with his wife's sister, no less).
To stand for dozens of miles and have extra hours, needless anxiety and gratuitous misery added on to your daily commutes.
"This is not just the cost in raising aggregate human misery, but also in direct extra financial penalties to the exchequer.
By the time Ricardo Quaresma finally put the watching world out of its misery with three minutes of extra time remaining, heading home from a couple of yards, it was the first time either keeper had been troubled all night.
I was on the coffee rota after mass (which added an extra half hour or more to the misery) and the car rota to ferry the old and infirm.
It fails to achieve its policy aims, breaches international children's rights, discriminates against disabled people, shunts extra costs on to the taxpayer and generates misery and poverty.
And that was without the misery of two or three hours of extra homework every night and school on Saturday mornings.
It blamed the extra costs on stormy weather and industrial action, which are heaping further misery on a company that is already reeling from the oil price slide.
