Saturday

despite my heartiest wishes and sincerest attempts, today is not saturday.

today is tuesday.

i was reading an essay about tonga and giant clams. i think if i was in tonga counting the giant clams i would not be so woeful that it was tuesday and not saturday.

tuesday, i posit, is a state of mind and, what's more, it is a day of the week.

ask not what your tuesday can do for you, but what you can do on a tuesday.

right now, the answer to that is work. i can work on a tuesday. and this brings to mind the sage advice Evelle delivered to one H.I. McDonnough: "Oh H.I., you're young and you got your health. What you want with a job?"

now, with the force of our collective wills, let us make this saturday.

one. two. GO!