BS: When does the week begin for you?

Subject: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 06:02 AM

Traditionally it begins on Sunday; according to the Radio Times it begins on Saturday, but in my heart the weekend's the weekend, and Sunday's the end of it - known as The Sabbath, indeed, in various parts of Scotland (certainly in old Broons stories) and so the week begins on Monday morning. How is for you?

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: Micca
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 06:18 AM

Hallowed be the Sabbath,
And farewell all earthly self;
The week begins on Tuesday,
For Munday hath hanged himself.

Graham, William Carlisle. A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions, Ancient and Modern 1823. p. 160.

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 06:22 AM

September, 1975.

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: kendall
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 06:45 AM

I'm retired so one day is pretty much like another for me.

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 07:40 AM

It was like that when our lives were determined by Shift Work. The only days then were Lates, Earlies and Days Off. The idea of a week lost all meaning, and consequently our social life went to hell, especially our loyalties to Folk Clubs etc. as we spun out of temporal kilter to the world as a whole. Took a while to readjust to normal hours, weekdays & weekends, but I'm glad we did.

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 08:04 AM

Friday evening after 5PM. That's when I allow myself to have a drink, {or 6 }having abstained since midnight on the previous Sunday.

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: artbrooks
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 09:11 AM

My desk calendar starts the week on Monday, but the wall calendar does so on Sunday. I work (volunteer) on Mondays and that is often a workday for herself, so I guess I'd go with Monday.

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: The Barden of England
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 09:13 AM

Like Kendall I'm retired, so the concept of 'week' has become meaningless. Always used to me Monday for me - that's why I didn't like them :-)
John Barden

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 09:21 AM

I'm self-employed in a seasonal business. When the season is upon us, I work seven days a week. When it's off-season, I slack off seven days a week.

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 09:58 AM

I was brought up thinking that the Jewish Sabbath was the seventh day of the week, so the Sabbath (I'm half Highland) was the first day. At least, if Sunday's the first day, then you don't have to work till the second day - gets it off to a better start.

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 10:15 AM

Woden's Day. We get to hang folks in honor of Woden that day.

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 10:23 AM

Since 'most' calendars you hang on the wall go from Sunday to Saturday, that's how I configure my computer calendars.... but for practical purposes, I can switch mentally to end...or begin... with the weekend.

Whatever works. Since I too am retired, non-religious, and work at home in seasonal spurts, it makes little differences. The only real event that drives my keeping track is the trash & recycling pickup which happens Monday morning.

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 10:24 AM

"and on the seventh day he rested."

Some sects visible around my area insist that based on that particular scripture the week must END on Sunday, that being their traditional "day of worship." I've always wondered why they choose his(?) "day of rest" to annoy him(?) while (s)he's trying to sleep - but maybe they're afraid (s)he won't wake up.(?)

The "calendar" week for most of us begins on Sunday, explained by some as being so that they can begin the week "affirmatively."

Each side, of course, declares the opposing theory as "total B. S."

(An explanation can be created for every accident. especially if you get to define the terms.)

As a practical matter, most people "feel like" the week starts when they return to work after an accustomed "day off" period.

Like Kendall, "we" are retired so our only reason for noticing what day it is is to know what time the grocery closes or to check whether we have to visit our vampires for a blood test or something.

Neither of us would know day or date without the little blob at the bottom of our computer screens. Time of day doesn't really matter much most of the time.

John

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 10:47 AM

Most of my 'cycles' are monthly rather than weekly - the only reasons I normally need to refer to a seven day calendar are to know when the bin lorries come, when the Farmers' Markets are on, and what hours the shops and restaurants are open. I suppose the week ends at 21:00 on Saturday 'cos that's when I stop waiting for the next instalment of 'Wallander' (or 'the Killing' or 'Spiral') on BBC4.

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 10:51 AM

There is no week. Each day is sui generis; there is little pattern so it mostly blends together. There are only seasons..and little notice of them here in SoCal.

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 11:04 AM

Six months ago I went back to work pretty much full time but it isn't onerous. I manage the apartment building in which I live and since I figure I have to be somewhere anyway I may as well be in the office and get paid for it. :)

Monday is the beginning of my week.

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 11:22 AM

The week begins fer me on Monday mornin'. I wake up to hear the sounds of busy traffic in the streets below. Cars honkin', exhaust fumes risin', pigeons cooin' contemplatively out by the edge of the roofs, Lennie the Baboon callin' out from the sidewalk for the mornin' edition, Frank the Oil Pig (a nickname I gave him) hammerin' away underneath his junk heap of a car that still don't run. A Chicago Monday mornin' comin' down.

As I yawn and stretch I can feel the ghosts of Sunday mornin's hangover whisperin' behind my eyebrows and dancin' a last ragged dance in the dusty corners of my lower occipital lobe. I get up, splash some cold water in my face, and the ghosts go reluctantly away.

It's Monday. The beginnin' of a whole new week of possibilities. Any time now...if I'm lucky...some swanky dame will be knockin' at my door with a big problem she wants me to solve. It might be some missin' jewels. It might be a missin' husband. It might be a letter she got, written in blood, from a man she ain't seen in 15 years, and he is bein' held for ransom by gun runners in North Africa. And if I'm lucky, she'll be rich. Filthy rich and in need of help from Chongo Chimp.

I oil up my arsenal of deadly force, take a quick look through my files, and pour myself a small shot of whisky. A big shot would be pushin' it on Monday mornin'. You don't wanna start the week loaded, you need a clear head to get business done.

As I am contemplatin' the wakin' city through my half-open windows and drawin' on a good Cuban cigar, I hear steps comin' up the stairs...down the hall...they stop at my door.

A sharp rapping.

"Come on in," I say. "It ain't locked."

The door opens. There is a sour lookin' individual standin' there with an expression on his ugly mug like he just bit down on a rotten lemon. It's a face I have seen before. It is Seymour Kravitz, my landlord, a vulture in the guise of a man. Seymour is one nasty piece of work. The last time he smiled was when his mother died and left him this building.

"Where's the goddam rent?" he inquires, wavin' his finger in my face. "Yer three weeks behind now!"

Yup. It is definitely Monday mornin'.

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: Amos
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 11:39 AM

For the brave men and women of the Galactic Patrol, the work is measured in lifetimes, and the production in centuries. We who travel among the stars, preserving the goodness of the Galaxies from the forces of enslavement and evil, know no calendar. We sleep where we can, and turn to on an instant's notice to man laser cannons, or slip into hidden orbit in the ruins of an asteroid belt, or land silent and invisible on some sleepy planet to begin a high-risk intel op. We are there when you need us, the defenders of civilization across the starways, and we know no clock or measure of our labors.

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: GUEST,Veronica Rutledge
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 11:49 AM

That sounds like a lovely premise for a whole new series of sci-fi films, Amos. You should send the script to some English producers. Hollywood would just muck it up dreadfully with too much mindless action a la Bruce Willis, but an English studio will know how to impart sophisticated humour and subtlety to the plot. I think it's a marvelous idea! The Galactic Patrol. I envision silver jump suits and designer hairdos. I would be quite willing to play the lead heroine in the series. We must come up with a suitable name for her.

- Veronica

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: GUEST,PeterC
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 05:55 PM

According to internationally agreed standard its Monday. (ISO8601)

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: ranger1
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 08:15 PM

Depends. In terms of payroll, my week starts on Sunday. In terms of work week, it starts on Thursday.

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 10:57 PM

It starts whenever I awaken.

And why would Chongo get mixed up with gum runners? Are there places (besides Singapore) were gum is verboten?

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 11:58 PM

Emotionally, it begins on Monday, as several have already remarked ~~ when mail deliveries resume after Sunday's break, when those shops which still close on a Sunday [most of them, in fact] reopen, when most people's working week begins, &c (and what are Saturday & Sunday jointly called, eh? So if they are the 'weekend', then what is the 'weekbeginning'?) ~~

~~ just as, for me anyhow, the 'afternoon' doesn't start immediately after noon, whatever the name implies, but after I have finished eating the midday meal [lunch, luncheon, dinner ~ what that meal is called could be another thread but I can't be bothered right now!...]

~Michael~

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: kendall
Date: 12 Jul 11 - 09:43 AM

When I was working there was no beginning or end. Law enforcement is steady work, in more ways than one.

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 12 Jul 11 - 08:29 PM

I think I always felt the week began on Monday, but now I'm not working either so I had a re-think. It still feels like Monday starts the week!

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: When does the week begin for you?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 12 Jul 11 - 10:50 PM

Remember also the BBC Radio 4 programme Start The Week -- on Monday mornings...

~M~