Blursday again

[redbird]

The Editorial Freelancers Association is having monthly contests to create relevant new words for these odd times. The May winner was

Blursday: As in, "What day is it? Who knows, every day is Blursday."

submitted by Deborah Wenger. The May contest was for an emotion a freelancer might feel about working during the COVID-19 crisis, but "Blursday" seems to be applicable to, or useful for, a lot of people, employed or not, because it seems like almost everyone's schedule is at least somewhat awry.

Comments

[cmcmck]

It's a good word as things get to be a blur a few weeks in!

[thnidu]

It sure works for me. Ever since I retired, every day is Blursday!

[dewline]

"Blursday".

Okay.

[otter]

I have a lot of Blursdays on my calendar.

[pameladean]

I am totally behind Blursday. Even though my computer tells me what day of the week it is when I power it up, that is not how I used to realize what day it was, apparently. I have calendars all over the house, too, but apparently, again, they were mostly used for aesthetic purposes or for reading about astronomy and phenology in between the monthly pages.

P.

[redbird]

I mentioned to my psychiatrist today that I'm actually *using* the little date-and-time display on my desktop computer to tell me what day it is. In normal times, I usually knew that but wondered what time it was; now both are fuzzy.

[pameladean]

So many things are fuzzy!

I still glance at the display to see what time it is, but then have to look back and actually pay attention if I want to know the day. I have some very ingrained habits that are no longer adequate but seem difficult to change.

P.

[kiya]

For the last... time... the message of the day on my MUSH-based chatroom has been:

"MOTD: It is Blursday, the Fortyteenth of Marprilay, and this is the Time O'Clock News."

[redbird]

Nice.

[therealsnape]

I have been known to think thinkety thoughts such as, "I ironed yesterday, so today is Tuesday ..."

[redbird]

Right now the day-of-week distinction most relevant to me and cattitude is that we put the trash barrels out for pickup on Wednesday afternoon/evening, for Thursday collection. Unexciting, but significant.

[piglet]

I wonder how many of us invented it? Because, seriously, *every* day is Blursday.

[redbird]

*nod* I've said "what even is time?" at least once during the current weirdness, and that phrasing isn't original to me either.

Blursday is great

[bibliofile]

But what even is time? Indeed. It's not doing a very good job of keeping everything linear, much less sequential, right now.

Re: Blursday is great

[redbird]

Then there are comments like "this is 2020 Mad Libs" for some of the weirder news stories. An example from yesterday: "former Red Wings hockey star Pavel Datsyuk's confessor believes that coronavirus is a hoax and Nicholas II was the Messiah. He has painted his monastery orchid pink and is holed up in there."

The Red Wings part makes it 2020 Mad Libs, but even without that, "schismatic Russian priest believes...orchid pink" would be nontrivially weird.

One advantage of the gardening is that it's helping keep things sequential: flowers will come before fruit.