by Didact | Jan 7, 2019 | Mondays, Uncategorized
Monday… What is the POINT of this most horrid of days?!? And why, in the name of ALL that is holy, does it have to come around once a week?!? Oh well. We’d better try to make the best of the situation. So let us start with a language lesson. Oh,...
by Didact | Dec 31, 2018 | Mondays, Uncategorized
Normally, Mondays really, really stink. But in 2018, we have been inordinately lucky. This year, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve have both fallen on Mondays, and this is very much to the good. So instead of the usual bitching and moaning about how...
by Didact | Dec 24, 2018 | Mondays, Uncategorized
Oh nuts, it’s Mon – What’s that you say? “Didact, cheer up, it’s Christmas Eve!” Wa-hey, you’re right! That means that tomorrow is the single best day of the year. And I have to say, I’m truly chuffed to bits about...
by Didact | Dec 17, 2018 | Mondays, Uncategorized
Monday. Bugger. Well, look on the bright side: if you are reading this, you are not waking up on a Monday morning in North Korea. Also – consider yourself lucky that you are not this guy: A Russian billionaire embroiled in Britain’s costliest divorce has...
by Didact | Dec 10, 2018 | Mondays, Uncategorized
It’s Monday again. проклятый сукин сын… I used Russian swear words because they’re appropriate, and because Russian is an exceptionally fine language to use for swearing. I thought English cuss words could be descriptive, but Russkies take it to...
by Didact | Dec 3, 2018 | Mondays, Uncategorized
Tell me why I don’t like Mondays… This Monday is actually a little better than most, for a number of reasons. But it’s still Monday, and that is making everyone pretty miserable. So, your friendly neighbourhood Didact has assembled a bunch of...
by Didact | Nov 26, 2018 | Mondays, Uncategorized
It’s the Monday after Thanksgiving weekend, and presumably all y’all are dealing with the likely less than pleasant results of epic food comas caused by eating and drinking FAR too much on Turkey Day itself. Hopefully y’all avoided the...
by Didact | Nov 19, 2018 | Mondays, Uncategorized
OFMIM. There is some good news, though, for those of you who like your Monday morning coffee with a solid helping of schadenfreude. It turns out that those supposedly “endangered” polar bears are absolutely nothing of the bloody sort, and in fact are...
by Didact | Nov 12, 2018 | Mondays, Uncategorized
It’s the Monday after the midterms, and unlike much of the Republican Establishment, which is still smarting from getting its ass kicked from both directions, I’m actually feeling pretty chipper. Or at least, I was, until I realised that it’s...
by Didact | Nov 5, 2018 | Mondays, Uncategorized
It’s Monday. Normally, I would just stop right there, because y’all would be horribly depressed simply from knowing this fact. But this Monday has a certain duality to it. On the one hand, it is Guy Fawkes Day – which is to say, the day that a...
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