What is it about Sunday evening?

[Peacetrain]

The ants in the pants feeling that life is passing you by?

What is it about Sunday evening that people set their hair on fire and yell at the moon?

What is it?

Maybe because the next day is Monday..

And back to work people go to repeat the same thing over they did last week.

Sunday evening is that last primal scream from the gut.. I am sick and tired and I am not going to take it anymore?

Or lets go spray paint the neighbors garage the school colors? (I am not admitting any such thing in my youth.. just a musing on a hot July night ;)

Think I will go out watch the fireflies.

[monmouth]

1. Masterpiece Theatre looks to be pretty good. A suave Italian detective

solving a crime I believe. Read it fast and "suave Italian" drew me in...

[Little Star]

12. Are you talking about ZEN?

We are dvr-ing it to watch later this week. It sounded good, was it?

[monmouth]

13. Excellent. story, plausible and beautiful scenery, including the actor

playing ZEN..You need to listen closely though, some of the dialogue is difficult to hear, at least it was for me. I hate when actors lower their voices like you're standing right next to them..LOL.

[Lint Head]

2. I've noticed that people who normally drive too fast past my house and with loud mufflers

drive slower and try to not be too loud on Sunday. I know some of these folks are NOT observing the sabbath. It seems like a state of mind.

[a kennedy]

3. OMG..... the fireflies around here are spectacular......

they are making a comeback.....beautiful.....almost like when I was a kid..... :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[mahina]

4. Will never forget one Sunday afternoon

waking from a nice nap and realizing that that on that very moment the rest of my life took a different path.

It did.

Just a regular sunny Sunday afternoon, leaves blowing in a cool breeze, everything changed forever. It felt still and calm at the same time as heavy and fraught. I still remember the song on the stereo. It was the day I realized that I could not go back to school in the fall, to the only place I could go that taught what I was passionate about- energy resources. UH Manoa did not and still does not have a program.

For anyone to be unable to get a college education because of money goes against my grain in a big way, maybe because it happened to me.

[Warpy]

5. I've always been out of step on this one

Either I've worked odd days or shifts and just didn't have the Sunday night letdown or I'm still suffering alcoholic marriage PTSD when Sunday night was a relief because I wouldn't have to be walking on eggshells while he was at work.

[LiberalEsto]

6. Tom Robbins described it beautifully

in "Still Life With woodpecker":

"Sunday, an overfed white cat mewing hymns and farting footballs."

[Urban Prairie]

7. I have often experienced a bit of melancholy on Sunday evenings, especially during my working years

except when I worked the graveyard shift, and Monday just happened to be one of my scheduled off-days. :)


But I have worked many, many, many "weekends" over the years, including Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights, and discovered to my chagrin that not many women liked to date a guy like me who had to get ready to go to work at 10 pm on most weekends.

:shrug:

But I imagine that "things" have changed a bit, ever since the turn of the century, and many are now thrilled just to be able to date a guy who has a good-paying, secure, and steady job?

[dkf]

8. Because going to work sucks.

And netflix is down.

[CTyankee]

9. This is a sad thread, judging from the replies.

So many people dispirited, resigned, subjugated...

this doesn't sound like an energized group of reformers, bent of changing the system. If anything, we seem to be looking inward, which is fine in so many ways, but not..."energized" to take action...

this is us, I guess. We don't do what the French and the Italians do. OK, I get that. We don't go into the streets and do a general strike, we are too afraid of losing what little we have and I don't blame anyone for doing that.

But, I'm depressed about this , too. If I blame anyone, I blame my own generation for not seeing this as it was coming and starting to make the signs and planning the protests. We let this happen in so many ways. We thought just going to the polls and voting would do the trick...or maybe making a few calls on behalf of our candidate or stuffing envelopes...but it didn't do diddly.

This ain't a good night for me...

[jwirr]

10. For me it begins with hating weekends. I am usually bored and alone

and if it were not for DU I would be in bad shape. I do not watch tv on weekends and so until the Monday news shows come on I am just bored.

[21st Century FDR]

11. There's something in a Sunday that makes a body feel alone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP67H4qfe5w