Memorable Tuesday #1: Doubt?

Hello fellow resolutioners! My new year’s resolution for 2009 is to have 52 memorable Tuesdays! I apologize for the tardiness of my first blog, but I didn’t decide on this resolution until late last week. Luckily, Tues the 6th was memorable or I would’ve already been failing at my goal.

Before we get into memorable Tuesday #1, I thought I’d share with you some interesting facts about Tuesday and why I want to have 52 memorable ones! Wanting to know more about Tuesdays I did the obvious and googled “Tuesday”. The first website on the search results was of course my other good friend Wikipedia! Tuesday is defined on this site as, “Tuesday is a day of the week in the Gregorian calendar. According to the international standard ISO 8601, it is the second day of the week. It occurs between Monday and Wednesday”. Well, that was kind of obvious, huh?

Don’t worry though, Wikipedia didn’t let me down! It had several interesting cultural facts about Tuesday. For instance, in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Tuesdays are dedicated to John the Baptist. I wonder why he got Tuesdays? Maybe that is the day they believe he was beheaded? I’m not sure, but it leads into the next fact about Tuesday which is that in the Greek world Tuesday is considered an unlucky day (which would’ve been true for John the Baptist if my hypothesis above is correct). They consider it unlucky b/c that was the day the fall of Constantinople occurred. (“Istanbul was Constantinople. Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople. Been a long time gone, Constantinople. Now it’s Turkish delight on a moonlit night.”) Jews, however, consider Tuesday very lucky because in the first chapter of Genesis in the section about Tuesday (or the 3rd day) it says “it was good” twice. Finally in the U.S., Tuesdays are usually election days and days that videos and audio releases occur for home purchase or rental (Coming this Tues Jan 13th, My Bloody Valentine on DVD and Ray Stevens “Laughter is the Best Medicine”!!).

Now on to Memorable Tues #1: Tuesday January 6th, 2009! What made Tuesday, January 6th, a memorable day for me? It will be memorable for me for two reasons. First, it was one of the rainiest days I’ve seen in Nashville! There were flood advisory warnings out and everything and the worst part was that my socks got wet so I had to deal with wet socks all day long! There’s nothing worse than wet socks!! Gross!

The second reason Tuesday January 6th will be memorable to me is that I went and saw the movie “Doubt” with my BFF Ashley (yeah, I just used BFF…what about it?!). SPOILER ALERT: If you don’t want to know anything about the movie Doubt you should probably just stop reading right about…..NOW.

Ashley’s birthday was January 1st and since I slept her birthday away after babysitting until 2 a.m. the night before I decided to treat her to a movie! Her first pick was Benjamin Button until I informed her that it was 3 hours long! Then she hadn’t seen Twilight yet (books are better than the movie!), but the times it was showing at weren’t good. So, third time’s a charm and she chose Doubt.

While waiting for Ashley in the movie theater lobby I started watching a large group of people in their late 20s and early 30s. All the girls had their hair done the same way (the hair back with the poofy top look…I failed to find a picture of what I’m talking about, but I’m sure you know what I’m talking about) and all the guys were very metrosexual looking. They were all very well dressed except for one girl. She had on a very oversized grey sweater with matching sweatpants and shiny grey ballet slipper shoes. It struck me as very odd. They of course went and saw “Doubt”, too.

I honestly didn’t have much hope for the movie. I don’t like conflict and I figured the whole movie was going to be conflict…and Catholic conflict at that! Overall, the movie was good, but I hated the ending. It left you doubting…which I’m sure was very funny to the writers of the movie. “Hey! Let’s write a movie called “Doubt” and then leave the viewers doubting! We’re geniuses!” Meryl Streep’s line at the end was really awkward too. She screams, “I have doubts!” and starts to bawl, but I just wanted to laugh. I had a good time with Ashley, though, and after driving home in the rain I was able to finally put dry socks on!

This post was submitted by Heather Cobb.