Sunday, at 4:45pm. The case of the Mondays officially settles in. Essentially, Sunday cannot even count as a true weekend day, since half of it is spent not wanting Monday to come, reminding yourself of all the things you can't forget on Monday, and rushing to get weekend errands done before the work week sets in. This cannot be considered a true day of relaxation.
A few months ago, Anna and I had a conversation about how weekends really need to be 3 days- one day for errands, one day for nesting and personal time, and one day for doing something fun. To me, this is a great ratio. But, this would leave a 4 day work week, and real world things wouldn't get done, and then what would the world come to?
So, driving home from a show at 2am last night, completely sober, I came up with a great idea. What about an 8 day week? 5 days of work productivity followed by 3 days of weekend. The only people who CAN'T think this is a great idea are those who follow the Bible literally and think the world was created 4000 years ago and we all descended from Adam and Eve. If that is the case, my following logic will not apply to you.
The 7 day week came from, as most people know, the Book of Genesis in the Bible. Looking around the world, in every country, for some reason, the one Bible piece that has stuck with everyone is the 7 day week. I don;t know about remote villages in other countries, but I think they're on the same day of the week, year, and time zone system as the rest of us. So, the switch to an 8 day week would have to be global. There's no REASON the week has to be 7 days long (don't give me the Bible reason, I already said my logic does apply to followers of literal Bible interpretation), there's no world powerful individual keeping the week at a 7 day number. If there is, that's pretty amazing, but I don't believe there is.
So, let's start a movement! Let's go! Change the world one great (and somewhat lazy) idea at a time.
