i have considered the weekend question some more, and found this a second reason for my having lost all sense of the days of the week: being in grad school you always think monday is thursday, because you just can't believe it isn't thursday yet, besides which you know you've done enough work for four days. on thursday, however, you go wild because the weekend has come early and you think every second owed to you. and on sundays we all live in widener.