Is It Monday Yet?

Large letters across the billboard read "Is It Monday Yet?"  Not until you get closer can you see the small ESPN logo, realizing its an ad for the cable sports network's Monday night football coverage.

However it makes me smile every time I see it.

Its common to hear people say "I hate Mondays"  or "Thank goodness it's Friday!" or even "It's humpday, we're half way through the work week!"

But to be excited over Monday is a different psychology.

I was considered a lunatic when I professed on the air that Monday was my favorite day of the week. Paul Piorek quipped back, "I'm calling Bellevue because you're crazy!"

Hating Monday didn't begin with us work-obsessed Americans. Here is a quote from English writer Charlotte Bronte's novel, "Shirley," published in 1848.

"Something real, cool and solid lies before you; something unromantic as Monday morning, when all who have work wake with the consciousness that they must rise and betake themselves thereto."

While I don't see Monday as romantic, I see it as a new beginning. Its the start of the week. Think of all the things you can accomplish in the upcoming week. And you have time to get them done. Plus, if you are a bit slow to get started on Monday, the old apologetic, "it's Monday" excuse always works! Yet if I start the week dreading the week, each ensuing day seems worse.

I'm happy to see ESPN promoting Monday as a day to look forward to. (Though I'm sure Bronte wouldn't agree with me because she probably wouldn't see Monday Night Football as romantic.) But with Monday as a "start the week right" and "night to look forward to" day, Wednesday as "we've almost made it, we're halfway through the week" day, Thursday the "early start of the weekend" day, Friday of course as "TGIF," the only day left to worry about is Tuesday.

Will we make it through?

It really is coincidence that I do my What's Bugging You report on Tuesdays. So whether its "terrible Tuesday" that bugs you, or anything else, let me know. Send an email!