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> Many people have shared with me their contempt for Sundays, and there seems to be no shortage of psychiatric literature referring to a “Sunday neurosis” or a

> Many people have shared with me their contempt for Sundays, and there seems to be no shortage of psychiatric literature referring to a “Sunday neurosis” or a feeling of gloom related to the day. Oh, can relate. Work’s the next day, of course it’s a downer. You spent yesterday catching up on necessary stuff you’d deferred in favor of work for five days straight, so didn’t really have an actual break, and now your momentary breather has another damn work day following it, so you feel like starting anything you actually want to do is pointless. You dread night because you’ll be waking too early to the alarm clock. Yeah, it sucks, there’s a reason some cultures have the attitude that anything short of a week isn’t a real break from work.

jazzyb 3y ago
As always, the Germans have a word for this feeling: Sontagsleere.
- zwieback 3y ago
  I'm German and I've never heard of this word but will use it from now on. The fun thing about German is that you can smash any number of nouns together so you could make it Sonntagmorgensleere or Wintersonntagsleere etc.
  - Clamchop 3y ago
    It's only an orthographic convention. English and all other languages can make compound nouns of arbitrary length, and the parts can but don't have to be nouns. In fact, there don't have to be any nouns in a compound noun! E.g. backup. English just puts spaces between the parts usually, but as I understand it, this is unusual among Germanic languages.
klyrs 3y ago
I've noticed something similar in myself. So I dedicate Saturday to rest, and Sunday to the household. This way, Monday isn't so jarring, and Sunday feels great.
kwyjibo1230 3y ago
Hard to put this succinctly but it has a sense of the sad and exhausted feeling one gets when they're mildly sick and must stay home, and likely stay in bed, to recover but you don't really want to do so. In other words, Sunday is our only true day to rest, the weekday was busy with work and scattered after-work commitments, and Saturday was devoted to a combination of chores and using every last bit of energy you had in the week to enjoy life and friends. So we may try to mentally force ourselves to take a day of rest and limited exertion, which in turn makes it not restful or fulfilling. It's sort of like when you know you need to go to bed on time so that you can have full energy for a busy tomorrow, it somehow makes your sleep worse knowing that.
- hotnfresh 3y ago
  Tired. Get some stuff out to do a thing you’ve been meaning to? But you just cleaned the house. If you don’t pick it back up today, it’ll sit out all week. Will you still want to do that next weekend, so it’s not so bad it was cluttering things up? Maybe not, that’s far off. Kids or pets will get into it and mess things up. Better not do that. Maybe really dig into that math book you started last Sunday. Wait, wtf does any of this mean? Ugh, it’s been too long, you’ll need to backtrack… never mind, this is hopeless. Pick up that long narrative video game you started last month but haven’t put time into since. Forgot the controls, this part’s too hard now, and you don’t remember what was going on anyway. TV or reading light fiction and watching the hours ‘till work tick down from the mid-teens, it is. Again.

jazzyb 3y ago

As always, the Germans have a word for this feeling: Sontagsleere.

zwieback 3y ago
I'm German and I've never heard of this word but will use it from now on. The fun thing about German is that you can smash any number of nouns together so you could make it Sonntagmorgensleere or Wintersonntagsleere etc.
- Clamchop 3y ago
  It's only an orthographic convention. English and all other languages can make compound nouns of arbitrary length, and the parts can but don't have to be nouns. In fact, there don't have to be any nouns in a compound noun! E.g. backup. English just puts spaces between the parts usually, but as I understand it, this is unusual among Germanic languages.

klyrs 3y ago

I've noticed something similar in myself. So I dedicate Saturday to rest, and Sunday to the household. This way, Monday isn't so jarring, and Sunday feels great.

kwyjibo1230 3y ago

Hard to put this succinctly but it has a sense of the sad and exhausted feeling one gets when they're mildly sick and must stay home, and likely stay in bed, to recover but you don't really want to do so. In other words, Sunday is our only true day to rest, the weekday was busy with work and scattered after-work commitments, and Saturday was devoted to a combination of chores and using every last bit of energy you had in the week to enjoy life and friends. So we may try to mentally force ourselves to take a day of rest and limited exertion, which in turn makes it not restful or fulfilling. It's sort of like when you know you need to go to bed on time so that you can have full energy for a busy tomorrow, it somehow makes your sleep worse knowing that.

hotnfresh 3y ago
Tired. Get some stuff out to do a thing you’ve been meaning to? But you just cleaned the house. If you don’t pick it back up today, it’ll sit out all week. Will you still want to do that next weekend, so it’s not so bad it was cluttering things up? Maybe not, that’s far off. Kids or pets will get into it and mess things up. Better not do that. Maybe really dig into that math book you started last Sunday. Wait, wtf does any of this mean? Ugh, it’s been too long, you’ll need to backtrack… never mind, this is hopeless. Pick up that long narrative video game you started last month but haven’t put time into since. Forgot the controls, this part’s too hard now, and you don’t remember what was going on anyway. TV or reading light fiction and watching the hours ‘till work tick down from the mid-teens, it is. Again.