Tuesday: Day in Need of a Press Agent

     I love Tuesday. But at the same time I'm sad for Tuesday because I think Tuesday gets no respect. Tuesday is the only day of the week that anything really gets done if you think about it. Tuesdays are when everything that's ever gonna be, starts. The best meeting day of the week is Tuesday, after all, Mondays give you heart attacks, Wednesdays mean you're halfway done. Thursdays are just practice runs for Fridays, and...well, we all know about Saturdays and Sundays. (You gotta use those days to brace for Mondays.)
      The origin of anything that's anything in our physical world today, I'm convinced, started on a Tuesday. Tuesdays are the silent, no-frills, gets-no-credit, has no identity, gets-no-slogan-of-its-own kinda day leaving it clear and free to actually be productive. It's the Jan Brady of work days... The Rodney Dangerfield of all days.
     When given a choice for scheduling meetings "out there" (as in not so urgent we must schedule NOW or this needs to happen tomorrow) do you not pick Tuesdays? I do. Tuesdays are safe days. When flipping the calendar page to a week with nothing on it, does not your pen just gravitate to Tuesday? Tuesdays are so safe they borderline boring, but don't be fooled. Tuesdays deserve more credit in my book...I'll even go so far as to say they deserve ALL the credit as far as work goes....Tuesdays may be the only real work day of our week when it gets down to it. Tuesdays rock. Tuesdays are stealth.
     Of course Sundays are God's day...the teacher's pet of days. (We know this because the Bible tells us so.) You can't get much loftier than Sunday. What's more, did you know there are more Sunday songs than any other day of the week? (I know. I just googled it.) There's "Sunday, Sunday" by Joni Mitchell, "Lazy on a Sunday Afternoon" by Sting...The Shirelles met him on a Sunday, a Sunday, a Sunday... and Kris Kristofferson wrote about "Sunday Morning Comin' Down" Why? Because all too soon it will be...
     Monday. Synonymous with heart attacks everywhere, in ever culture around the globe, Mondays are the shock-your-heart days when your peaceful, personal, weekend time collides abruptly with what pays for your peaceful, personal life. You don't book anything on Mondays if you can help it, that is unless you just like adding a layer of extra stress going in. Rainy Days and Mondays ALWAYS get us down. (And when it's raining ON a Monday...you might as well just go ahead and jump. ARGH!)
     Wednesday's used to be productive. But now they have a fan base and Twitter following all their own thanks to that goofy camel walking around cubicles asking "Know what day it is? Know what DAY THIS IS? MikeMikeMikeMikeMike"  It's HUMP day~  Yep. We've pretty much ruined it for Wednesday (thank you Geico reptile).
     Thursdays USED to be a lot like Tuesdays, but anymore, Thursdays are just warm ups for Fridays...precursor to the weekend you're already starting to fantasize about, which means, you probably don't want to plan anything TOO critical by way of your team's mental focus, not unless you've renewed everyone's Adderal prescription. Thursdays are just Fridays waiting to happen.
     And then there is ...(wait for it ....WAIT for it)
     (Thank God It's) FRIDAY!! Yep. The day we've all been waiting for. TGIF! We've got restaurants; We got songs. We got your Girl Fridays, your Friday Night Lights...Friday doesn't need our help. Friday has attitude all its own...after all, she's up against...

     S A T you are D A Y -- NIGHT!
     S A T you are D A Y -- NIGHT!
   
     I mean seriously. Saturday comes with its own cheerleading squad, THAT's how much we love Saturday. Songwriters love Saturdays. Home Depot loves Saturdays. All God's children love Saturdays, Why? Because we still have Sunday to sleep it all off.
     For my money, Tuesday is the best, most honest day of the week. It's the only real day, the only pure day. It's the only day of the week not caught up in its own hype. Tuesdays are the self actualized day of days as Tuesdays are perfectly content to go along/get along and be the incubator day to nurture all our working efforts everywhere.
     So here's to your happy Tuesday everybody. I hope you get a lot of stuff done. If you do, you have Tuesday to thank. (Don't forget to thank your day!)