Thank God It’s Friday On Monday

Was naming the days of the week a mistake?

I have a sister whose greatest joy in life is complaining about Mondays. Her second favorite thing is complaining about how short weekends are. Not surprisingly, she has a job that she very intensely hates.

She has collected and shared thousands of ‘I Hate Monday’ memes. An inordinate amount of them involve kitty cats complaining about Mondays. Personally, I have never known a single kitty cat who hated Mondays. I have never known a single kitty cat who even knew what Mondays are.

Of course she is not the only one who complains about Mondays. I hear it from a lot of people. You can almost tell how much someone hates their job by how much they complain about Mondays. It seems to me, though, that complaining about Mondays only intensifies the burden of beginning a new work week.

When I hear people complain about Mondays it is very hard for me to empathize. It’s not that I love my job. It is because Mondays are my Friday. Tuesdays and Wednesdays are my weekend and Thursday is my Monday. While Tuesdays and Wednesdays certainly go way too quickly, I never complain about Thursdays.

Sure I sometimes feel that twinge of anticipatory dread on Thursdays just before I start yet another work week but I don’t complain about it. It…