Intellectually I know it's Monday, but we're in the week after Christmas, which means that time has no real meaning and today might was well be called Glunday or Mirtday or Quangday, so, happy Nuufday, everybody
@scalzi I thought it was traditional to post cat pictures with Nuufday greetings 🤔
@scalzi And a joyous Bitmorecheese to you.
@scalzi just said to the Mr that today is Friday in a week full of Fridays!
@scalzi I love when my birthday falls on Nuufday.
@scalzi #liminal space/time. Makes it hard to go back to work tomorrow, knowing I have 4 days to prepare for an onslaught of students 7 faculty returning to campus, when all I want to do is hibernate (now that the blizzard is gone & my partner is nearly recovered from covid).
@TheStormcrow @scalzi Hoping for a complete recovery for your partner and a smooth transition back for you. This time of year is tough…wishing you the best.
@scalzi or something crazy like boxingday
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It's also Boxing Day, & the first day of Kwanzaa!
@scalzi Happy Grilled Cheese and Lentil Dal day.
@scalzi Between Christmas and New Year’s every day is Caturday.
@scalzi I am convinced today is Friday, and so was yesterday, and the day before.
@scalzi @cstross But… it’s Boxing Day, for goodness’ sake. Why make up another name for today? Save it for tomorrow and the rest of the week! 🤣
@scalzi I don't understand why calendar reform didn't go with a variation on the ancient Egyptian calendar (or perhaps the French revolutionary calendar): a year should consist of 12 months of 30 days apiece, plus 5-6 extra festival days at the end.
@scalzi It's the first day of Hot X Bun season.
@scalzi Germans call this time "between the years. "
@Sdowney @scalzi auf Deutsch, bitte? Sorry my German is rusty and I’m intrigued.
@Sdowney @darthmoomin @scalzi This German can confirm that this is a common and universally understood phrase. If they aren't shop owners, cashiers, bus drivers, waiters, etc., Germans will be on vacation during that time, so most offices, public or private, are closed, and the time feels strange, because the old year has basically ended, but the new year hasn't yet begun.
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And some will use this for one week of uninterrupted quality work as no one else is working. Less relevant with home office, but still.
For sure for ppl. with kids this does not work (2 weeks school holidays).
@TonyBologni @Sdowney @darthmoomin @scalzi Many people will sacrifice their time for whatever hobby they nerd out about, and, yes, for some people that is their work. Most of us are sorry for them, though. 🙂
(I rather make sure I can set aside time to work uninterrupted when it isn't holidays, but I understand that some people cannot do this.)
@sbi @scalzi @Sdowney @darthmoomin No either or here.
I just remember how much I loved working that week decades ago. ;-)
@scalzi members of Commonwealth nations like #Canada have solved this the problem by calling today #boxingday https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day 😉
Boxing Day - Wikipedia

@scalzi I always have trouble with Glundays.
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I'm so with you on this one! Caught myself thinking, is it Monday or Tuesday today. Brain woke up & replied : does it matter?
@scalzi you have just described retirement days
@scalzi this time is also known as the merrineum
@scalzi i'm partialy to blursday myself
@scalzi looks like someone has a case of the Glundays
@scalzi Leftovers and cookies week.
@scalzi Every day has been Friday to me since last Tuesday.
@scalzi such is baunchmas, the holiday perineum
@scalzi my wife tried to call the car shop today, then hung up after she realized it’s “legally Christmas”
@scalzi Wait, normal brained people don't feel like everyday is a Khruangday? The moment I stopped working in a place that required me to send semihourly reports, everyday just became a day.
@scalzi I thought nuufday was tomorrow. I’m so confused.

@scalzi yup.

I took a nap! :)

It was fantastic.

@scalzi fact. Husband asked the day and I said it’s football day every day is football day and he was sad.
@scalzi Time is a stubbornly persistent illusion. ~Einstein
@scalzi Quangday is my favorite day of the week. I think.
@scalzi We've GOT to bring back intercalary days. For reasons.
@scalzi that was 26.12 in Germany it is called boxing day and it is a public holiday. That day has a meaning.
@scalzi on this lovely morftrnoon.