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WHICH DAYS ARE WAIF
I’ve been in school for my entire life. 25 full years of life and almost 22 full years of school. Maybe that’s why I automatically put this in 12-point times new roman font. But that doesn’t explain the poor grammar and lack of sentence structure or my inability to tell a good story. For the past 6 months I’ve been doing clinical internships as the last bit of school I’ll ever have to do. So, I’ve had to work real hours like a real human. And they make me do this every day. With just Saturday and Sunday off. And some days the working hours are different, meaning I always have to know what day it is. And for the first time in my life, I noticed that there are days that are consistently less enjoyable, less waif than other days.
Everyone always says Mondays suck. But in school, they didn’t always suck. If you had a class that didn’t take attendance, you could skip class if it was sunny outside, making that Monday waif. If you had 2 exams in one day then that Monday would not be waif. But that means the following Monday would be more waif than the last because there would be no exams in the near future, so you could watch Netflix during class, which makes that Monday waif. But in this working life I am being introduced to, I can confidently declare that Mondays are not waif and I literally cannot think of an exception to this. They are not doing it for me. Mondays lead us into a FULL WEEK of doing things I don’t want to do, and I just don’t want all of that. But it keeps happening. Every Monday. Not waif.
“Tuesdays can be considered waif because growing up I had this weird thing that Tuesday was my favorite word.”
Thursdays on the other hand are pretty waif on a scale of not waif at all (zero) to very waif (the most waif imaginable). I usually get to do one thing I end up enjoying on Thursdays [getting a morning workout in before internship but that’s annoying to say out loud, so you don’t have to read that if you’re not into it. I always thought those people were crazy until I realized how crazy working every day is], sometimes two if I get to nap after my internship. AND Thursday means that the days of not working are basically here. Also, everyone is pretty much over the entire week, it’s not just me. Its similar energy all around, which is pretty waif.
Fridays are pretty much the exact same as Thursdays except they are a little less waif because it seems like a day I shouldn’t work, and I definitely still have to set and alarm and report to a full case load at internship. But then Friday can get like one half of the lost waifness back because you can stay up late, duh.
Sundays are definitely waif, especially if I get to play soccer. I am making myself seem sportier than I really am, but soccer makes me happy, so it’s good for my mental health. I also don’t care about winning, which is confusing for most people. But someone has to lose, and I am okay with that being me sometimes, which takes almost all of the stress out of the game. Sunday brings a calmness that the other days don’t give you.
No alarms on Sundays mean lots of rest to begin this waif day. Big zen vibes from Sundays get the def waif ratings.
Tuesdays can be considered waif because growing up I had this weird thing that Tuesday was my favorite word. Which is weird, I don’t know- I can’t explain why I liked it so much to make it my favorite word. If this reveals something about my personality like my horoscope or enneagram LMK. I also cannot associate anything else with Tuesdays so this this all we’re going to get.
This leaves us with Wednesdays and Saturdays.
I like Saturdays and I feel like we can all figure out why based on the previous marks. I really don’t enjoy needing to have a plan and I really don’t enjoy needing to know what time it is. I literally hate these things. Hate is aggressive and I avoided it, but I need you to understand this. Saturdays require neither planning nor timing, so that makes them very waif. Saturdays give us the freedom we deserve every day. Like I can do whatever I want pretty much whenever I want. I don’t have to worry about drinking coffee after 3pm because I don’t need to worry about getting enough sleep because Sunday is coming!!! Sunday is so ready to work so well with Saturday. They’re a great team, you really just love to see their success week after week. Watching people and things I love succeed is one of my favorite things in the world. Bottom line is Saturdays are waif because I like them, and I hate time.
Wednesdays are not-so-obviously waif. Contrary to the entire scale I’ve painted so far, Wednesdays do, in fact, receive a solid waif rating. Wednesdays let me nap after internship and I was Wednesday from the Addams Family for Halloween one year. I hate Halloween but it was a comfortable costume, so it made that year a little waif. I also have a lighter case load on Wednesdays and it’s about the time in the week when I have accepted defeat and no longer fight the inevitable un-waify work that must be done.
To give a little bit more perspective to help you orient yourself on this daily waif scale, the most waif days will always be the days when I don’t need to know what day it is. Like those weird days between Christmas and New Years that just don’t need to be anything because I never had to do anything. For the past 22 years I have wished to be done with school to go to work to then be able to do things I thought would be more waif than school. But I don’t think there will ever be a period of time when I can let the days just be nothing. The nothing days are off the chart’s waif. And now they are just an old memory that we’ll talk about like skipping class for the patio bars and riding our bikes down the biggest hill in the neighborhood and painting our faces for the football games and the orange slices at half time and the weird things we said as kids and studying at coffee shops until sunset and never being able to escape Halloweekend. I’ll let you know if I find more of these most waif days, the possibility of them keeps the day-to-day a little more waif.