thurdl's take on...

...Wednesdays

Ever since I first read the books, and carrying over through the radio show, television show, and movie, my favorite line from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has always been "I never could get the hang of Thursdays." So I was thus thrilled that the line survived a script writing process for the movie that not everything else did. It has always seemed to me that there is something quite specific about Thursdays.

Except. Except no there isn't. I've come to realize this very recently. The problem isn't Thursdays, the problem has NEVER been Thursdays. The problem? Wednesdays!

There you have it. Simple as that. Wednesdays are the bane of modern civilization, and should likely be done away with entirely. They give Thursdays a bad name. They force us to work a fifth day in any week. There's just nothing that they really give back to society to make up for everything they take away. Everyone seems to say "oh, it's hump day" as though the week is already magically open before Wednesday even begins. There's the problem right there. The human condition seems to say that the week should be half over when Tuesday has been completed. Two days up, two days down, and the weekend happens.

Except no. There's the plateau. That bastard of a day. Two days up, one day STUCK there, then two days down. An entire day life is frozen there, as far as it can possibly get from a weekend. Any rejuvinating effects from the previous weekend have worn off by that point, and one can only look ahead and realize just how much there is between them and the next weekend.

Two days up. Two days down. That's the problem with Thursdays. It isn't that they, themselves, are bad, it's that the wedging of a Wednesday into the middle of the week makes everyone think that Thursday should be Friday. So we're disoriented, we're confused. We know, somewhere, that at the end of the day, it would be time to escape, but then we look at the calendar, and see that even when Thursday is finished, there's that one more day of work before the weekend. And thus we think t ourselves Thursday...we never could get the hang of Thursdays. But Thursday is a scapegoat! It's getting a bum wrap! Thursday is just fine, and no one would mind Thursdays at all, if it just weren't for Wednesday insinuating itself right there in the middle of the week.

So rise up, oh ye readers! Let Wednesday know that we aren't going to take it anymore! Let Wednesday know that it isn't going to terrorize our work weeks! Let Wednesday know that it shall no longer be giving Thursday a bad name! Get the hang of Thursdays again! Only when we can present a united front will Wednesday finally be defeated!

Who's with me?

posted by thurdl @ 4:54:00 PM