Leaping

[ladysprite]

I find it highly unfair that, on the rare occasions that we get an extra day in the year, it has to be in February. The best thing about February - one of the only good things about it at all, in fact - is the fact that it's short, and over in only 28 days, so we can move on to better and brighter months. Sticking an extra day on the end turns what could be a reward into a punishment. No Spring for you; you get another day of February.

I'd much rather have an extra day in, say, June. Not too hot, not crazy miserable summer, but likely to be warm and sunny, and a longer day, and I could do something with it beyond huddle under the heating vent at work and stare at the gray sky and wonder when the snow is going to start.

And on a related subject, if we're going to have an extra day, it should truly be an extra day. In all ways. Not Wednesday, or Thursday, or any ordinary day of the week, but... Blernsday, or something like that. Make that week eight days long, and take the extra day wherever it falls as found hours to do whatever the heck you want. No alarm clocks, no work unless you feel like it, no chores, just 24 hours of *actual* free time...

That's how it works in Rebekistan, at least.

Comments

[guendalina.livejournal.com]

I like that idea. I'll move to Rebekistan!

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me...

[metaphysick.livejournal.com]

I would have a traditional Blernsday flourless dark chocolate cake.

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

It'd go perfectly after the traditional Leap Day supper of double-bacon Mac & Cheese, prepared while wearing comfy pajamas.

[mermaidlady]

Double-bacon Mac & Cheese may be the traditional Leap Day supper, but it's too good just to have on that day alone.

[jacketeer.livejournal.com]

I've never been pro-anything more than I am pro-blernsday!

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*packs my bags and looks for a visa to Rebekistan*

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Blernsday reminds me of the Gordon Dickson short story "Zeepsday", which turns out to be a trope (warning: link to tvtropes).

[braider.livejournal.com]

But *this* leap day is 68 - yes, 68 - degrees in Columbus, OH. I'm thinking that's not a bad temperature for an extra day - except for the fact that it's in, y'know, February.....

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

I have just imagined a new vacation model where leap years come with one discretionary holiday.

[darxus.livejournal.com]

http://i.imgur.com/nJJ55.jpg (via reddit)

[laurion]

There are a -lot- of proposed alternative calendaring systems out there. And some of them treat the 'extra' days as truly extra days. There are decimalized calendars with 10 days per week, or to months per year. There are calendars that are more lunar in nature (13 months of exactly 4 weeks each, plus a few extra days ehre and there), and there are even calendars proposing five 8-day weeks per month. One of my favorites is the World calendar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Calendar) which keeps a lot of the features were comfortable with, but makes it so you'd never have to replace the calendar on the wall, and uses the 'extra day' concept you have above.

[aries-walker.livejournal.com]

I like the way Rebekistan does business. There's definitely room for a Rebekian embassy within Husbandia.

[gmkieran.livejournal.com]

Hear!Hear! for Rebekistan! Gotta go home and pack! ;)

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Moreover, if we just declared 1 day a year that wasn't associated with a day of the week, the calendar would remain constant from year to year and we'd always know the day of any given date. In leap years, it would be simple to declare two such interannular* days.

* I just made that word up. It's supposed to mean "between the years". Etymological clarification is welcome if I've goofed up my roots.

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

And on a related subject, if we're going to have an extra day, it should truly be an extra day. In all ways. Not Wednesday, or Thursday, or any ordinary day of the week, but... Blernsday, or something like that. Make that week eight days long, and take the extra day wherever it falls as found hours to do whatever the heck you want. No alarm clocks, no work unless you feel like it, no chores, just 24 hours of *actual* free time...

Ooh, that's a thought!