Monday
‘Woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head, found my way downstairs and drank a cup, and looking up I noticed I was late, found my coat and grabbed my hat, made the bus in seconds flat…’
Or rather: woke up, got out of bed, instantly froze, struggled into unironed clothes, staggered down the stairs into the snow, waited on the draughty platform for a delayed train, watched a police investigation into a break-in at the station cafe (on a freezing Sunday night? what they steal? warming mugs of hot chocolate?), fought with newly emerged hoards of new years resolutioners at the gym and wrote lengthy to-do lists at work whilst wearing a hat and scarf in my arctic themed office.
I now read that one in ten of British young people, aged 16 – 25, claim that life is meaningless and always or often feel ‘depressed’.
Is today (‘the most stressful day of the year’ according to the Telegraph) really the best day to release this news? Do the Prince’s Trust who commissioned the report really think that they’re going to get much sympathy from the general public today? Not from me they’re not. They should try again tomorrow.
Tags: woe is me
January 6th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Isn’t there a day in October that’s meant to another depressive blackspot too – or perhaps it’s most likely to have an accident (which would make you depressed I guess)
January 6th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
No, I think you’re right – there is another ‘most depressed/stressed day of the year’, probably several… How long to the next one I wonder? It would give me time to prepare!
January 6th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
I think it’s meant to be 10th Feb ie no glow from xmas left, it’s freezing and gloomy, everyone is still skint and well febuarys a grim month!
January 6th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
BLTP, it’s probably any day that a company who want to pull a PR stunt want to promote. Feburary is a good contender though.
January 6th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
I wouldn’t have liked to have gone to work yesterday (the 5th). I took consolation from the fact I didn’t have to answer my phone to the supply agency and instead spent most of the day in bed. I went to work today without much of a grumble though. Having that extra day, when others were trawling to work, made quite a difference.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
That definitely sounds like a plan for the future. Everyone was in filfthy moods on Monday and the office was absolutley freezing from having been shut up for 2 weeks. I usually take the extra time off anyway for my birthday – which makes a difference – but this year it was on the weekend. So I didn’t. Lesson learned!
January 7th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
C:
I missed that it was your birthday, so happy birthday
have piece of cake on me!
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January 7th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Cheers BLTP. I don’t usually like to advertise my birthday so it tends to get lost in the mists of January…
What the heck is that purple stuff on the cake though?!
January 7th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
I’ve definitely had the blues since the turn of the year.