I recently heard something interesting on the radio about Tuesday.
That may seem like a bit of a stretch, but bear with me.
Tom Allen, the host of About Time on the CBC FM network, was talking about how many people overlook this particular day of the week.
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Monday, he said, is known for its particular “harshness,” by which I assume he meant it’s not a lot of fun, considering its position at the beginning of the work week.
Wednesday is hump day, while Thursday is payday for some, choir practice for others, as he put it.
Friday is the end of the work week, while Saturday and Sunday make up the weekend, which is all you really need to say about those two days.
That leaves Tuesday, and Allen’s point was that no one ever pays a lot of attention to Tuesday.
That got me thinking about what Tuesday means to me.
When I’m on vacation, Tuesday is just another day of the leisurely week.
However, when I’m working, which is most of the year, Tuesday has its unique place in the weekly rhythm that makes up the work cycle at the Western Producer.
We finish putting together the paper on Monday, so in a lot of ways, our work week actually starts on Tuesday.
There once was a time when it was the slowest day of the week in the Producer newsroom’s calendar, a day to regroup after the busyness of Monday.
It’s not that we didn’t do anything that day, but let’s say that if you had to schedule a teeth cleaning or a car servicing, Tuesday was the day to do it.
Workflows and job duties change, and today Tuesday is a very different animal.
It is now the day when we concentrate on the stories that have already been filed so that we have more time to work on the stories that will be arriving later in the week.
As a result, my Tuesday morning is spent getting these stories ready for layout, writing headlines and finding photos. The afternoon is spent choosing pages for this material and then proofing the pages as they are prepared.
It makes for an incredibly busy day as we get ourselves set up for the rest of the week.
Needless to say, Tuesday is no longer the day I get my teeth cleaned.
