Wednesday

You are halfway through the week. This is the good news. The bad news is that halfway through the week is still Wednesday.

Wednesday has a nickname. This is more than Monday has. Monday does not have a nickname because no one has ever felt warmly enough about Monday to give it one. Tuesday has nothing. Wednesday has hump day, which is a nickname that communicates both the geographical position of Wednesday within the week and also the specific effort required to get over it and down the other side, which is an acknowledgment built into the name itself that Wednesday is something to be gotten over, a thing you are climbing rather than enjoying, a midpoint you cross on your way to somewhere else rather than a destination anyone has chosen deliberately. People say happy hump day with genuine enthusiasm, because Wednesday represents the beginning of the downhill portion, and the downhill portion is Thursday and Friday, which are days that feel increasingly like the weekend without actually being the weekend yet, which is a feeling so much better than Tuesday that people will celebrate the arrival of Wednesday with a sincerity that the day, examined on its own merits, does not fully justify. Wednesday is fine. It is exactly as good as a day that is not Thursday or Friday can be. It has its nickname. It is doing its best. You are doing yours.

The Wednesday tee is for people who have said happy hump day to a coworker and meant it with complete sincerity, because Wednesday really is better than Tuesday, and that is worth something, even if what it is worth is not very much in absolute terms. District DM130 Perfect Tri® Tee — featherlight, broken-in soft, available in Black. The color of a week that is still happening.

• 4.5 oz. — light enough for a Wednesday, when you have survived Monday and Tuesday and now stand at the top of the hump looking at Thursday, which is close enough to Friday to be genuinely encouraging
• 50% polyester / 25% combed ring-spun cotton / 25% rayon — tri-blend construction durable enough for a full Wednesday, which is the most demanding day in terms of the specific emotional labor of being enthusiastic about being halfway done with something that has not finished yet
• Rib-knit neck that holds its shape through someone telling you happy hump day and you responding in kind with a level of genuine warmth that surprises you slightly given that it is still, technically, Wednesday
• Tear-away label — no irritation at the collar, because you have already climbed the hump and you deserve a small mercy on the way down, and this is the small mercy available to you at this particular product price point
• Shoulder-to-shoulder taping for a structured fit appropriate for someone who has made it to Wednesday, which is a real thing you did, and you are allowed to feel whatever you feel about it, which for most people is a cautious, moderate optimism
• Available in Black — the color of all five days in this series, because the week is the week, and the week is black, and Wednesday is no exception even with the nickname and the hump and the mild sense that things are beginning to trend in a direction you prefer

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