Today is Holy Monday. It is a strange one for me and I'm not sure if I should be happy about it or not. On the plus side, Wolfie is on holiday, so I will be spending a lot of time with him this week. When I was his age, it was a school day although not an usual one: the teachers were going full Catholic on us for the whole Holy Week. The problem for this Holy Monday is that I am officially unemployed as of today and as I am typing this I have no job to fall back on. I have one interview lined up and I need to keep on job hunting, so it will not be a proper holiday for me. Usually, I am just eager for the week to be over so I can enjoy Easter. Now my feelings are ambivalent.
Monday, 3 April 2023
Strange Holy Monday
Monday, 11 April 2022
Lundi saint
Nous sommes le Lundi saint aujourd'hui. C'est une semaine de quatre jours, mais une longue semaine de travail pour moi: la semaine avant Pâques semble toujours longue. Pour petit loup, tout va bien: il est en congé depuis vendredi dernier et le sera pour deux semaines. Je l'envie, mais au moins il est à la maison. Espérons que le temps sera moins long pour moi ainsi.
Monday, 29 March 2021
Lundi saint
Nous sommes le Lundi saint aujourd'hui et je tenais à le souligner. J'ai déjà blogué sur le sujet, dont en 2015 et en 2018, sur mes souvenirs du Lundi saint et sur comment je le vis maintenant comme adulte. À mon âge, ça veut dire que le Carême achève et que Pâques sera là très bientôt. C'est en général long d'attendre les vacances de Pâques, mais ce le sera moins cette année, puisque contrairement à 2018 j'aime ma job et donc ce sera beaucoup plus endurable. Je vais aussi me tenir occupé en préparant Pâques.
Monday, 6 April 2020
Holy Monday
Monday, 15 April 2019
The long Holy Monday
Monday, 26 March 2018
La (trop) longue Semaine sainte...
Monday, 10 April 2017
The long (un)Holy Week
I took this picture in Brittany and thought it would fit the topic of this blog. And I think that I did not put enough pictures recently. So we are Holy Monday, so we have to go through the Holy Week, which started yesterday, for Easter to be here, and four days, or at least three when you are reading this, for me to be on holidays. And I need this time off badly, like I always do when Easter is near, whatever the date Easter may be. It is a conditioned reflex. The Holy Week feels very long, like a unholy tease really.
Monday, 21 March 2016
La Semaine sainte (misère?)
Monday, 30 March 2015
Le Lundi saint de l'impie
Monday, 21 April 2014
La fête après Pâques
Monday, 14 April 2014
Holy (Accursed) Monday
If I had the power to curse, I would curse Monday as a day in general (although I suspect that through the ages, having been cursed over and over again, something stuck to Monday) and Holy Monday in particular. Because nowadays, in my experience, Holy Monday is a Monday that feels longer, where Easter and the weekend is closer, yet feels so far away. Because the closer you get to a holiday, the longer the days are until you actually get there. So every Holy Monday, it feels even more like Monday than usual, it feels more like Hell. Like it will never end. So it is for me an Accursed Monday.

