Thursday

So close. Still Thursday.

Thursday is the most emotionally complicated day of the week. Monday is simple: it is bad, and everyone knows it is bad, and there is a collective understanding that Monday is bad that makes Monday somewhat easier to endure because at least you are not enduring it alone. Tuesday is nothing. Wednesday has the hump and the brief psychological victory of being halfway done. But Thursday is a different kind of problem, because Thursday is so close to Friday that you can perceive Friday from Thursday, you can feel Friday approaching the way you feel a weather change before it arrives, and this proximity is both encouraging and quietly agonizing because you are not in Friday yet, you are in Thursday, and Thursday is still a full workday with all the properties of a full workday, and the fact that Friday is right there, just across one night of sleep, does nothing to change what Thursday currently is, which is not Friday. People are warmer on Thursdays. Plans get made for the weekend. Someone says almost Friday around 3 PM with a brightness in their voice that is genuine and earned and also, technically, incorrect, because it is almost Friday in the same way that almost arrived is the same as arrived, which it is not, and Thursday knows this, and you know this, and you still feel the pull of Friday all day long like a tide that has not quite come in.

The Thursday tee is for people who have looked at the clock on a Thursday afternoon, felt certain it was already Friday, checked the date, and processed the results with the quiet dignity of someone who has been in this exact situation every Thursday of their adult life and has simply decided to continue anyway. District DM130 Perfect Tri® Tee — featherlight, broken-in soft, available in Black. For a day that is doing its best given the circumstances of being directly adjacent to the best day of the week without being it.

• 4.5 oz. — light enough for a Thursday, when you are carrying the anticipatory weight of an almost-weekend while also carrying the factual weight of a full remaining workday, which is a lot to carry in both cases
• 50% polyester / 25% combed ring-spun cotton / 25% rayon — tri-blend construction that holds together through a Thursday during which you will almost certainly say or hear the phrase almost Friday at least once, and feel the complicated emotion of knowing it is true and also not true at the same time
• Rib-knit neck that holds its shape through the part of Thursday when you start mentally planning the weekend, which happens earlier on Thursday than it should, because Thursday is close enough to Friday that the brain begins weekend operations prematurely and cannot be stopped
• Tear-away label — no irritation at the collar, because Thursday already provides a very specific low-grade irritation of its own, the irritation of a day that is good relative to what came before it and not quite good enough relative to what comes after
• Shoulder-to-shoulder taping for a structured fit appropriate for someone in the fourth day of a five-day week, which is the best position in the week to be in, mathematically, and which is still Thursday, which everyone in the building is aware of and is managing in their own way
• Available in Black — the color of the full five-day series, worn here on the day that is closest to not needing a coping mechanism and still, technically, needing one

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