Blue Monday: Extra Bad

Because everything gets it’s own research funding these days we ripped this wonderful lead in to a story from today’s news: “Researchers in England, citing unpaid holiday bills, rotten weather and people's realization that they likely won't live up to their New Year's resolutions, say Jan. 22 is the unhappiest day of 2007.” Yep, today is the unhappiest day of 2007. Since we made it to work by dragging our feet and swearing about having to see that f*ing Peyton Manning commercial while drinking coffee this morning. Little did the researchers know in England when they tallied up their results that the New Englanders would have a little something extra to feel crappy about on Monday morning. In 2006 it fell on January 24, a Friday. Fridays are never as bad as Mondays, especially when you combine Monday with a Pats loss the day before, excluding them from the Superbowl. In case you’re curious the formula developed to determine the unhappiest day of the year is 1/8W+(D-d)3/8xTQMxNA a concise explanation is available on this site, but you’ll find a Pats loss isn’t in the abbreviations.