Tuesday: Ruminations

I just reread what I posted last night and nearly pooped my pants at how bad it was. What can I say about it?

“You could start off by apologizing, and then stop trying to convince us this fetid trash actually counts as a blog entry,” you’ll, no doubt, most rudely condemn me.

I must admit dear reader that there is some truth to your scathing accusation. I am sorry for the poor quality of yesterday’s entry, and what’s more, I cannot even blame it on having a case of the Mondays.

You see, I think Mondays have been given a bad rap. Sure, for many they signal the return to either the school or work week, which by its nature demands the weekend ends; however, this deliberate maligning of the Monday is bigoted and old-fashioned.

“Eric,” you interject, “what could possibly be narrow-minded about day prejudice? And shouldn’t you have written about this yesterday?”

Well, my astute reader, it may have made sense to write about this yesterday; however, there is a connection with Tuesdays just around the corner. As for now, let us look at the validity of my anti anti-Monday statement:

According to the reputable source wikipedia, Mondays are considered good days for fasting in Judaism and Islam, and I interject that it would have been a good day in Christianity as well since it follows the feast of Sunday. Early Christians did not see this as a case. Following an unfortunate trend, Christians moved forward with an anti-Semitic mindset, and in an attempt to distance themselves from the Jews began observing Wednesdays as good fast days. Could our distaste for Mondays spring forth from anti-Jewish sentiment?

Before you can interject on me again, let me state that I don’t think so. I think our distaste for Mondays is largely unoriginal. People set themselves up for a fall on Mondays. We hold Mondays on the same plain as disembowelment.

Boring!

What about Tuesday? The little bastard-child of the week… Going into Mondays expecting the worst often leaves me realizing that Mondays aren’t so bad; however Tuesdays really grate my nerves. It is so apparent that the workweek is not coming to an end—I don’t even have the right to complain like I did the day prior. BOO!

If only every Tuesday was this awesome

So there you have it: hating Mondays was so last decade, Tuesdays are the hip new day to dislike, and I will fight anyone in the face who says any differently.

I’m sorry to be so testy, but it is Tuesday after all.