Thursday Is Not The Last Day Of The Week
Thursday is not the last day of the week. Friday is the last day of the week. On Friday we leave our schools or our offices comfortable in our knowledge that the week is over and we can finally relax. Friday is the last day of the week.

Yet our schools and our work start back up on Monday. On Monday we gird ourselves with backpacks and briefcases and set off grumbling into the rising sun. Monday is the first day of the week, everyone knows that. If Monday is the first day of the week Sunday must be the last day of the week because a week is seven days long; everyone knows that. Since each week is followed immediately by another week, the day before the first day of one week must be the last day of the previous week. Sunday is the day before Monday. Our syllogism is airtight: Sunday is the last day of the week.

Yet the calendar clearly states that Sunday is the first day of the week, and the first day of the week cannot be the last day of the week. The beginning and the ending are two very different things. Nothing is both the alpha and the omega. If Sunday is the first day of the week Saturday must be the last day of the week. It's awfully difficult to successfully argue against the calendar. Only once has it been done successfully, and the man who won that argument was the Emperor of Rome of the calendar was not all that well established at the time. Since then it has never lost an argument, though occasionally it has slept through arguments, which it certainly would have one had it been awake, but unfortunately the argument was considered forfeit, and the opposition's position was accepted. It is also difficult to successfully argue with carpets, but that has nothing to do with the matter at hand.

The important question is whether or not Thursday is the last day of the week. So far we've established that the last day of the week is three different days. None of which is Thursday. Yet when some manner of holiday truncates one's working week by a single day, Thursday may in fact become the last day. Today is one such Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.


And remember the guiding light, lest we forget the glory that be Lemon Party.
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- posted by Odovaucer @ 11:59 PM