The Most Depressing Day of the Year

[Japher]

Is apparently today, or so they said on the radio. All the reports I see say it's the 24th, but that was last year, and that was a Monday. So, I think it's today.

Anyway, I'm not all that depressed. Tuesdays are worse days, but then today just started. It is raining, but then it's not that cold. My coffee is warm, my work load is about the same as it has been, my finance are just as f'd up as usuall... I don't get it.

With the exception of Sava, who is more depressed today than usual?

[Stuie]

I was actually feeling kind of chipper today. Yesterday was a bit of a low for me though.

[loinburger]

I got two hours of sleep last night, and I got to work at 5 am only to discover that I don't have a 24-hour building badge, so I had to drive home and stare at the wall in an insomniac stupor until I could get into the building at 6. Now I'm trying to finish inventory before I pass out from exhaustion. So I wouldn't say that I'm particularly depressed, but I'm certainly disgruntled.

[Ecthy]

Huh? Today isn't bad at all. I feel semi-bad in novembers, and then in july, but not on a sunny winter day

[Winston]

May 1st.

Dimwits by the millions getting the day off to go drinking, listen to a couple of speeches interrupted by loud belching and the sounds of other biological functions, then concluding by lurching about the city howling like monkeys and every half hour urinating in the middle of the street.

Socialism

[Japher]

You all only do that once a year?

[Winston]

Well, no. But it's the only day where the Commies will annoy us all by claiming it is done for Commie "ideals", and actually carries any wider importance.

[Japher]

oh, I see, how dare they cheapin' drunken stuppors!

[Winston]

It's more the fact that they don't just shut up about it, instead of clinging to the notion that it is in any way connected to their loony belief system.

And that the public buses actually have flags on them that day, though, in all fairness, not decorated with the hammer and sickle.

[Japher]

And in doing so, supply a nice economic boost to the local economy.

[Winston]

Economic boost? You mean by having plants and offices, government services shut down for the day out of some fringe group's veneration for an horribly antiquated anniversary?

Ok, I'm done now. Today is pretty bad also, I'll give you that.

[Gibsie]

8 straight hours of lectures for me, and a tough exam for my girlfriend. I agree sire!

[Winston]

I hope you gave her a good grade after it was over.

[Urban Ranger]

How do they decide which day is the most depressing?

[Stuie]

I think they use that groundhog in Pennsylvania.