Comments | rachelepstein: parity of days of the week

rachelepstein

parity of days of the week

Apr 11, 2008 14:56

Recently I started taking my two allergy pills on alternating days, which has made me try to think of ways to remember which days I'm supposed to take Claritin and which days I'm supposed to take Zyrtec. In this process, I realized that there are some days of the week I think of as "even" and some as "odd ( Read more... )

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yampowered April 14 2008, 08:41:13 UTC

Actually, with me it's a two-week cycle. Weeks start on Monday, because I'm a worker drone, so on the first week M-W-F-Su are odd and Tu-Th-Sa are even. The following week, the odds and evens switch around, and the week after that it starts over. Basically, I just count to 14 over and over.

veleen April 23 2008, 07:14:47 UTC

This is a bit too late a post but I got intrigued when I saw your results post and hunted this one down. It is weird but I agree with the people who say:

"Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday are odd.
Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday are even."

Saturday fallows Friday so if I see Friday as odd, it makes no sense to see Saturday as odd too, but there you have that is how I see it. Just as I see Sunday very clearly as even. Go figure.