By JAMES D. WATTS JR. Scene Writer on Jan 25, 2010, at 12:25 PM Updated on 1/25 at 3:56 PM
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No, really. We have the math to prove it.
About six years ago, there came out of England a press release, supposedly by a tutor at Cardiff University who described how he had worked out a formula to determine "the most depressing day of the year."
According to this fellow's highly dubious mathematics, by adding together the weather plus the debts one owes, multiplying that by the length of time since the joys of the Christmas season increased by the length of time since we gave up on our New Year's resolutions, all divided by one's lack of motivation multiplied the feeling we have that we should take some positive action of some kind, you get the result that, for the year 2010, Jan. 25 is officially "Blue Monday," the single most depressing day of the year.
I write for a living, and the last math class I took was my senior year in high school. Even I can tell that's dodgier math than the state legislature would use.
The Independent, an English newspaper, decided the mark the occasion with a list of wonderfully depressing books to capture the mood of this "Blue Monday." Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" -- maybe the most unrelievedly bleak novel ever written -- topped the list.
Read the story: Read 'em and weep And then, there's this:
As for me, I'm planning on having as happy as day as I can -- even if blue is a favorite color.
ADDENDUM: I spoke too soon. So much for a happy day....
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