It is hard after an event's over, having to fall back and regroup and think about "what's next". I hadn't thought about it being so close to fall/winter too, so one isn't able to do something similar outside. I dropped out of grad school in October 2-3 years ago and had to figure something out and, luckily, NaNoWriMo showed up for November and I did that.

It does sound like you had a wonderful time though eskie, enjoy your new refrigerator, too.