Dullsday

[rejectomorph]

I've been thinking -- (always a dangerous sign.) Is there any reason for Tuesday? Couldn't we just dump it, and have a six day week? I mean, have you ever said, or heard anyone else say, something like "Wow, what a great Tuesday this has been!' or "Man, I love Tuesdays!?" I doubt it. As far as I can see, Tuesday is just an annoyance, and we'd be better off without it. Unless someone can come up with a good reason to keep it around, I'm going to start a campaign to abolish Tuesday.

This Tuesday was gray. The rain has stopped, most of the snow has been cleared from the streets and melted from the roofs. It lies in patches like threadbare carpeting inexplicably laid out on lawns. The sky was the featureless, uniform gray of overcast that looks as though clouds have been subjected to some solvent which has destroyed their individual character. In short, it was a perfect Tuesday of blandness. Even the cold in the air was without snap or vigor; a mere clamminess, like that of a corpse. Well, let it rot! To hell with Tuesday, I say! It won't be missed.

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[thirdhand.livejournal.com]

I have been told that tuesday is the best day of the week for grocery shopping.

Me? Tusedays I can take or leave.

[rejectomorph]

I find that any day is the best day for grocery shopping, as long as you go about three or four o'clock in the morning. Not many people there, and those few usually pretty weird. The best part is that I get to be one of the weird people they see.

[scumfactor.livejournal.com]

hello

i added you to my friends' list. if you want to add me back, cool. if not, cool.

as for tuesdays...well, unless the music industry makes plans to change it, Tuesday is the day new releases come out and being a music fanboy, I look forward to every Tuesday... ;-)

[rejectomorph]

Greetings.

I didn't know about music being released on Tuesdays. When Tuesdays are gone, they will have to release in on Wednesdays, I guess. Or Mondays.

You mentioned Garvey Ranch Park. Interesting.

[scumfactor.livejournal.com]

Garvey Ranch Park--I live in Rosemead. You mentioned Mark Keppel High School in your interests. That's why I added you... ;-)

It actually would be better for music to be released on Mondays. That's the new release day in the UK...

[rejectomorph]

Ah, yes. Mock Turtle High School. I remember it semi-fondly. I added it to my interests list in the expectation that, eventually, someone I knew when I was there might show up at LJ. So far, it hasn't happened. My guess is either they are all dead, or (being graduates of Mark Keppel High School) they can't figure out how to use a computer. (heh)

I've heard that in recent years the place has actually become one of the top high schools in the state -- ranked something like ninth in student scores on statewide tests. That certainly wasn't the case when I was there. And at the time I graduated, the school was in the early stages of a long decline in its standing (which at the time was somewhere around dead average.) But that was a long time ago. (class of 1962) At the time I left Los Angeles, in 1986, MK was floundering about in the shallow end of the pool. It looks as though things have changed.