Friday, October 13, 2006

Friday the 13th

Today:
The day is Friday
The date is 13th
The month is October...

All of which combined together once to give rise to the legend of Friday the 13th, not to mention the numerous books, theories, conspiracy theories and other things (like computer virus by the same name) it started...

And our instructor had to pick up today to give us back our papers for midterm...


P.S. While we are at it, the wiki article on Friday the 13th mentions that "Novelist Daniel Handler, also known as Lemony Snicket, Released the 13th book of the Series of Unfortunate Events on Friday the 13th of October 2006." Is that past tense by mistake or did I miss a day somewhere?

13 comments:

SiD said...

man.. i dont know how u fared in ur tests.. but i sure had a bad day at office..
full day on 1 bug.. and had to leave it at EOD out of exhaustion...
16th will be a new day!!!

Amey said...

@Sid: Apparently almost everybody got hit by the day, so my test grades are not that bad. I added that later after writing the post actually...
And yes, 16th will be a new day surely... Hope your bug is solved on 16th

@Nikichan: Don't worry... it all depends on what you think.
And the book title... Vyakti in marathi means Person and Valli is something like "a person who has some quirk of character"... "aani" is "and". So, the book title can losely be translated as "Persons and Quirks"

SeePearrl said...
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SeePearrl said...

i am especially a "triskadecaphobic "...

something very very bad happnd in my life on "DEC 13TH 2001"..it wasnt a friday but...it was a wensday!

i can imagine ..if wensday is like this ...how can a friday 13th be!!

Cuckoo said...

Friday the 13th? Bad for me. I decided to shift to Beta & struggled & bothered someone whole night who was giving me online support. :((

Cuckoo said...

Heyyy why my comment is coming with those 2 tags?
Huh?
No time to investigate now.. LJ has other things to do.

Amey said...

@White Forest: That was a bad day even for the whole India... I can understand. But don't blame the date you know.
Hope you are ok now...

@Cuckoo: Hmm, seems the day was bad for the person who helped you too then ;) Hope he is going to get something good for help...
And tags? Check "Edit profile", the tags should be there...

Balaji said...

Funny you mention this. I had some serious work to be completed on Friday 13. I have been having troubles with the same for the past 14 days. and still not sure whether everything has been completed or not. Awful day :)

Amey said...

@Balaji: That should teach you to put deadlines on Friday the 13th ;)
But seriously, how did the work go? You must have had results by now...

Keshi said...

I dun believe in this Fri the 13th business. Cos every other day is like Fri the 13th for me.

Keshi.

Amey said...

@Keshi: It can't be that bad... I mean, what with the ghost-sightings and all, you must have enough excitement in life, if you leave that "dino"-bit out ;)
Think of me, I have yet to see the ghostess :(

Keshi said...

lol thats what I mean...cos evry other day I see ghosts na :):)

Keshi.

Amey said...

@Keshi: Of course... ;)