Posted on 01/23/2006 5:11:35 AM PST by martin_fierro
Monday, January 23 gloomiest day of the year: academic
Sun Jan 22, 4:07 PM ET
LONDON (AFP) - Watch out: Monday, January 23 is going to be the unhappiest day of the year, according to a British university researcher.
Cliff Arnall, a health psychologist at the University of Cardiff, specialising in confidence-building and stress management, told AFP the prediction was the result of some gruelling mathematics.
Post-Christmas blues, the return to work after the holidays, mounting bills to pay for the parties, the challenge of keeping New Year's resolutions, the slender prospects of fun in the weeks ahead and chilly winter temperatures for those in the northern hemisphere all add up, he said.
These factors, which he combined in a complex formula, came out showing that the Monday closest to January 24 would be the most dismal of the year.
He quizzed several hundred people for the investigation.
So now we know, would we not have been better off without the bad news?
Not at all, according to Arnall.
Those in the know are in a better position to beat the blues, he insisted.
"You can us it as a springboard to make changes. It can encourage people," he said.
However, those in misery on Monday at least have something to look forward to.
According to the same mathematical formula, June 23 is the happiest day of the year.
Don't ask me -- it came with the article:
A man reads a copy of a Playboy magazine in Jakarta, 19 January 2005. Indonesian Muslim leaders expressed horror over reported plans to publish a local edition of Playboy magazine and warned of "disastrous" consequences.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)
The only thing gloomy here is the sky which is dumping snow on us. ;)
37 and raining here in NYC does add to the gloom.
I'll take my Steelerettes any day. So neener.
I'll stick to this...
Why is this man picking on MY day?
You'll take a box with a red x?
I'm not gloomy, Texas finally got some rain. ;9)
YUM!!! I'd like to fight her in a restroom stall!
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
lemme check for myself...............yep, husband's still breathing, it is a bad day
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This is my favorite of LAETITIA CASTA .
http://www.kmmod.com/lcasta/fashion/original/fa029.jpg
Please feel free to post it (at least look at it) ............ I'd not mind being that desk/table!
I was wondering where she was slipping off to on some of those chilly autumn Sundays.
Let's see:
Raining, check.
Kids out of school for a teacher workday, check.
Aches and pains, check.
Chills, Check.
stomach upset, check.
still working but from home, check.
Mother in law might move in, check.
Ok, I Agree, it is the gloomiest day of the year.
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