On Susie Bright’s substack today, 1/14:
Today is the Clinically-Proven Worst Day of the Year
It’s not just you — January’s third week contains the Worst Day of the Year. You’re probably in pretty tough shape.
According to the brightest publicists and mathematical statisticians, today sucks. The Clinically Proven Worst Day of the Year is Blue Monday, also known as the start of the third week in January. Terrible Tuesday isn’t far behind. And WTF Wednesday . . . you’re not getting out of it until February 1st.
I can verify that I’m in pretty bad shape, just barely managing, with things going wrong left and right, and with my hands barely working (I lose control of them and drop stuff; and can’t manage to pick up and hold books of any size, which is a real problem for someone in my business). Meanwhile, I’m deaf in my left ear again, and there’s a rat on my patio.
I’m on my third caregiver in a week — I can’t tell you how time-consuming and exhausting it is to get acquainted with and break in a new caregiver, instead of freeing me up to do my work it eats up all my time — and the third one is now half an hour late, oh god is he even coming at all? (Answer: no. He has a family emergency, so caregiver #2 is coming back just for this day, though she has barely learned about my house and how it works and what help I need.)
And the wider world? The juggernaut of the incoming Grabpussy administration, Los Angeles neighborhoods in flames.
I despair.
But I already knew about the awfulness of this time of the year.
