Sundays, Fucking Sundays
June 28th, 2009by David S. Wills
DAEGU, SOUTH KOREA -
I’m not a religious man by any means, and so you won’t find me at church or mosque, or worshipping anything anywhere. I’m also not really a terribly active man, and so whilst I enjoy a walk in the park or a game of football, you also will rarely find me there. I don’t watch TV, either, so my Sundays don’t revolve around that.
I’m a lazy fellow at heart, and so on my precious Sundays, I like to relax and stay at home. All around my house I have wireless internet access, and so I spend much of my time online.
But it seems that on Sundays I am alone. Nobody e-mails me, nobody posts blogs or status updates, nothing ever changes on Sundays online. What’s the deal, people? If I post something, write someone or want to see something new, I have to wait until Monday, when I work for twelve hours and sleep the rest of the time. By the time I can check my e-mails it’s Wednesday, but only for a while and then I’m back to work.
Something comes up and I feel I should interject my opinion, but by the time I have the time, the situation has died and my opinion is redundant. I forget to reply to business e-mails, and my magazine and bookstore go without customers. The weekends are my time to shine. My witty quips are first on blogs and groups, and my e-mails are returned (except for the ones too early in the week to find…)
But who cares? By the time the world comes back to its computer screen, my thoughts are ancient and useless. Everything is out of date, and the week is only a few hours old.
But wait, I live in Korea. We are hours ahead of the rest of the world, with lightening fast internet speeds! So my Sundays are America’s Saturdays… When people there read what I’ve posted, it’ll be Sunday for them, but Monday for me. Does that means that they still read my thoughts on Sunday? No. Not for me. It’s too late for the man of the future.
A man ahead of his time.
Wait, does that mean that people are using their internet on Sundays, but not on Saturdays? Is this future thing perverting my understanding? What could be the Saturday excuse? There’s no church, no family picnics… What do people even do on Saturdays, anyway?
Even Twitter is calm on a Sunday. Nowadays people only have time for 140 characters, but even on Sunday they can only post once. Only a few Iranians and Michael Jackson death experts are Tweeting.
Do businesses pay less for online advertising on Sunday? Do downloads work faster with fewer people cluttering the lines? Or do they work slower? Would it save MySpace and Facebook and Google money to simply stop running on weekends, or to lower their bandwidth?
Surely the internet isn’t a clutter of procrastinators, wasting away their hours at work and school with meaningless online communication? Say it ain’t so…
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Ok, you’ve got me. It’s Sunday and I’m bored.
That’s right, folks. A whole post without talking about Korean stuff!
The soundtrack to this post is three parts “I’m Only Sleeping,” one part “I Don’t Like Mondays.”
Thought-provoking post … oh wait, I’m late for brunch, so I’ll check back with you on Wednesday!
David,
Everyone feels like a slug on Mondays. I don’t know why that is, but it’s a fact.
Criminy! I meant SUNDAYS!
(Always too fast to hit that comment button!)
Haha, yes. Even if I get up early the day disappears with nothing done, and always too soon. By Sunday evening I’m already counting the days until Saturday.
I’ve noticed the same thing, and whilst there is still time difference its not that major. And it’s the same. No one is on facebook either.
I only post here on Fridays if I can get it in early for that reason. It seems that some of these crazed induviduals go out at the weekend or spend time with their families— selfishly disregarding my needs!
David,
I’ll tell you a secret.
TNB was actually born from the members of
the Trinity New Baptist Fellowship
handbell choir & ensemble.
Rev. Brad Listi, youth pastor
Richard Ferguson, worship leader.
We’re Baptist so between
dinner on the ground
and Shoney’s after the evening service
there just isnt time for worldly things
BTW, I stand betwixt
Sisters Autumn and Lenore
but they only let me play
the little bell.
I see.
My Facebook and other interactions go up exponentially between Tuesdays and Fridays. I surmise that on Mondays, people are too bent to even screw off while on the job. The rest of the time, your theory is correct: Your traffic increases because people are screwing off on the job, but that’s okay because they’re probably getting screwed by their employers, so all is fair in the capitalism-run-amok world.
That’s probably correct. On Mondays people are too busy trying to not kill themselves to Tweet.
What’s that line from Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy about the alien who accidentally became immortal? About he could have dealt with everlasting life if it hadn’t been for Sunday afternoons?
Sundays are fucked. I’ve never liked ‘em. I hated them when I was kid because there was never anything decent on television, just shitty old ‘Wonderful World of Disney’. Plus Sunday night dinner was usully leftovers from lunch. No, Sundays have always been rubbish.
I used to hate Sundays because that meant it was only a matter of hours until school. Then I grew up, went to university and the days blended into one another.
Now I’m a teacher and I hate Sundays because, well, it’s only a matter of hours until school.
It’s already Monday afternoon here and I’ve finally gotten a chance to check the comments! Now my thoughts on Sunday have torn off into the week, but I guess it’s Sunday with most of you…