Jan 08 2010
Thank Gawd It’s . . . A Social Custom
It’s Friday. Thank Gawd for that. Actually, maybe we should thank social custom/convention for it. For if no one agreed it was Friday, it wouldn’t be Friday.
What is Friday? This is what the Online Etymological Dictionary says:
O.E. frigedæg “Frigga’s day,” (see Frigg), Gmc. goddess of married love, a W.Gmc. translation of L. dies Veneris, “day of (the planet) Venus,” which itself translated Gk. Aphrodites hemera. Cf. O.N. frijadagr, O.Fris. frigendei, M.Du. vridach, Du. vrijdag, Ger. Freitag “Friday,” and the L.-derived cognates O.Fr. vendresdi, Fr. vendredi, Sp. viernes. In the Gmc. pantheon, Freya (q.v.) corresponds more closely in character to Venus than Frigg does, and some early Icelandic writers used Freyjudagr for “Friday.”
Okay. How’s this: Today is the day–in a human-constructed pattern–preceding a day I do less office work. Yahoo!
If I punched a clock, today would be the day I before two sleep cycles without punching.
Party!
