November and January. I book myself a holiday in January every year to get away from the worst of it, but November is a wholly pointless month. Perhaps we could campaign for the clocks to be be put forward from the end of October to December 1st, avoiding November completely....
p.s Sleepybird, I think you should wait til you're feeling better, then ring the companies you were dealing with while your (annoying sounding) boss was off and remind them how well you dealt with everything in his absence, how competent and professional you are and ask them to offer you a job (with a salary to match your obvious skills) Then you can tell him to sod off!