If you follow me on Twitter or listen to the radio show, you’ll know I don’t have a very good relationship with Tuesdays. It’s not a conscious thing – I’ve tried positive mantras. No matter the mood or circumstance, Tuesday is, for lack of a better word, ‘blergh’. Or more accurately, ‘meh’.  

I have a theory.

Monday has an awful reputation for being terrible, simply because it’s post weekend. It’s the first time in two days we have to wake up early, we have to haul to work, and then stay there for a whole day. This makes us hate them before they even happen. But it’s also a day full of fun weekend recollections and time to capitalise on two days’ worth of relaxation. So while we all systematically bitch about Mondays, we don’t actually have as a bad a time as we expect. Maybe that’s why Mondays aren’t so bad – we’re expecting them to be kak, and they aren’t always homicidal-inducing days of torture.

By Wednesday we’re relieved that we’re nearly through half a week, and as they say, it’s all downhill from there. Most of us have declared war against Thursday even being considered a weekday, and pledge our allegiance by getting pants-droppingly pissed each and every week. Then we’re back at weekends with not a care in the world.

So back to Tuesday – it has neither the pre-weekend excitement nor the post weekend endorphins that make other weekdays bearable. Quite simply, there’s nothing to a Tuesday. It’s the most bland and colourlessly obvious work day. They are irreparably meh, and there’s no solving them until law declares Wednesdays siesta days.

Don’t let the stereotypical week fears fool you – Monday is your friend. It’s Meh Tuesday you have to look out for.

Kim Schulze

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