Extra Credit: "How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives"

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 "How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives"


I resonated when Jill Lepore spoke about how she associates different days of the week with different smells and sensations. For example, I associate Tuesdays and Thursdays with sun/warmth and good food. The reason has nothing to do with the actual days but rather the class schedules I have on those days. I get out of class by noon on Tuesdays and Thursdays so I always leave campus while the sun is still shining, then I have the rest of the day to thoughtfully cook a good meal because I’m not exhausted from class or rushing to get to my next commitment.


It was interesting to read that the World Calendar proposed new days such as Year-End Day, Leap-Year Day, and extra Saturdays in December and June, resulting in an eight-day week once every year and twice every four years. However, I am not shocked that this was difficult for society to adopt because I,  myself,  could never imagine changing my concept of the days of the week as my life is planned around it. Ironically enough I crossed this extra credit off of my hourly planner that separates each hour of my day every day for each day of the week. Asking billions of people across the world to do the same would require an insurmountable amount of effort and convincing.

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