Hearing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" at Midnight

Midnight. The weird alarm clock in the kitchen (that came out of the blue) has the habbit of playing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" at 00:00 o'clock. The first time I heard it, I had just gone to bed and thought it was rather creepy that a faint Christmas carol sounded in the night. I thought it came from one singing Christmas card I had put in a drawer after cleaning my room, but then I remembered it played "Jingle Bells." It was all perfectly dreadful. I was all alone at home, not even the doggy was there, and my twisted imagination started making up stories about ghosts, or a murderer who plays Christmas carols in August and then goes in for the kill... All I could do was snug up in bed and hope my imagination was just my imagination. When I heard the sound again the night after, right at midnight, I felt braver (mainly because Rex was here and would protect me ... right) and followed the sound to the kitchen. Then all my worries died away when I saw the new clock and concluded it was apparently a sick clock that thought every day was Christmas. So here it went again, tonight.
Today was another one of those goodbye days. I guess it's time for me to go into a state of partial depression because of all the farewells going on.
Katya left for the US today. Her farewell party was on Monday evening, but then I saw her for a short time on Tuesday, too, and got to say a more private final goodbye. She's now in Detroit and will soon be in Ohio. Alas, she's no longer in Sofia and could not attend Iliana's farewell party which was today. Iliana will hopefully leave for Amsterdam on the 18th, and she had the goodbye gathering today because she wasn't sure how busy she'd be over the next few (two) days. Today I also met with Maria P. Vassileva and told her "Bye and good luck in Harvard!" over a hot pizza. Ten days from now (now=August 18, as of 14 minutes), Mihaela will leave for Yale. Two days after her, I'll also leave. Milena will go to Germany in mid-September. Vessi will stay in Sofia... And poof, so soon we'll be parted... :'( That's why I'm getting depressed; just now we're beginning to actually realize that we're all going in different directions. It's weird, when you're used to going out with the same people, to start seeing fewer and fewer of your friends showing up at group gatherings. We'll all have different adventures; we'll all change a bit (or a lot, who knows...); we won't be able to talk to each other that often; we'll meet many new people... But we'll never forget each other. We've all been through so much that I can definitely say our bonds are tighter than ever. And there's no way to break those bonds now, no matter how different we become or how busy we are. We'll always be that crazy group which spent it's school days behind Sanders, played with Koda, went to see movies every Friday, had sleepovers, ate tons of food together, talked silly things and laughed for hours (going into some serious hysteria:), wrote poems and text messages in Bulgarian class, went hiking together, chatted online every day, bought each other lots of presents, often got ourselves into some sort of trouble (or at least got very weird looks from the people around us:), turned Luchoni and KFC into our 2nd home, shared all our thoughts with each other, talked the same language and could communicate without words, hoped and succeeded together, shared five most precious years... I love you guys! Now and forever, yay!
Ah... So now, off we go to distant destinations, but we'll always share that same brain cell :D