Pathetic Pathetic Fallacy

My short Spring Break is over-- a measly five days long (because our district did not budget any snow days) and the weather is appropriately rainy, dark, and glum: mirroring my emotions about returning to school, and the long stretch of five-day weeks where I will (futilely) try to educate fourth-quarter seniors-- and while normally, in reality, the weather does not give a shit about human emotions, in literature the weather often mirrors the themes of the situation (for example, the oppressive heat at the end of the Great Gatsby-- Tom is sweating like a pig, but Gatsby remains cool and perspiration-free) and it seems the weather is doing me this service today-- perhaps because I teach English and have oft-mentioned the "pathetic fallacy" to my students-- but whatever, the reason, this is the perfect way to end a short (but quite fun) Spring Break-- with the weather showing fallacious empathy towards my returning to work.