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anyone else get this??

gff, Monday, 29 October 2007 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link

life passes one by, innit

gff, Monday, 29 October 2007 03:09 (seventeen years ago) link

all the time when i was a kid.

still do sometimes.

gr8080, Monday, 29 October 2007 03:10 (seventeen years ago) link

weekend over = homework due monday morning.

gr8080, Monday, 29 October 2007 03:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Sunday night grumpy given work and all, but not sad. (Certainly not right now, I had a great dinner!)

Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 October 2007 03:12 (seventeen years ago) link

thing is, i had a pretty interesting weekend. it's funny how this still happens, yeah

gff, Monday, 29 October 2007 03:14 (seventeen years ago) link

dinner! maybe it's my blood sugar

gff, Monday, 29 October 2007 03:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I get this all the time and have since I was little. It's not even Sunday night sad for me it's Sunday sad. I've never much liked Sundays at all.

ENBB, Monday, 29 October 2007 03:15 (seventeen years ago) link

A Morrissey song comes to mind.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 October 2007 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I usually just get the monday through thursday night sad.

Z S, Monday, 29 October 2007 03:32 (seventeen years ago) link

i used to get it so bad when i was in primary and high school (we called it "sunday depression"). you just need to quit dreading monday. (obv)

sunny successor, Monday, 29 October 2007 03:43 (seventeen years ago) link

When not at the office on deadline for a story that's running late...

I watch 60 Minutes and the Simpsons, call the various parents, do some bills, go for a walk with the girlfriend, pop in a video, stay awake while she falls asleep, take advantage of the extra sleep from that morning to stay up too late, then get up for a job that I don't dread. Tonight's another story, obviously...

Pete Scholtes, Monday, 29 October 2007 03:57 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/rocks.jpg

gr8080, Monday, 29 October 2007 06:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I've moved from Sunday night grumpy to Sunday night sleepless. Too many thoughts in my head about things to write combined with coffee, I think.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 October 2007 07:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Yep, I get this and Sgs gets this, which makes Sunday night's often less fun than they might be. It can be delayed by The West Wing at 8 o'clock, and for me at least Match of the Day 2 provides a small respite, but if we're in bad moods anyway it's pretty horrible.

So much of life's joy is in the anticipation.

Mark C, Monday, 29 October 2007 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I get this, almost every Sunday. It's mostly because the weekend is over and a new week of work school and work begins, the effect of which is enhanced by being hungover almost every Sunday. Thankfully this friend of mine feels the same and lives nearby, so for the most of this year me and often some other friends too who suffer from Sunday melancholy have gathered at her placer to watch the telly and eat something unhealthy. And if you're seeing someone that obviously makes it easier too, because Sunday is the official Doing Stuff With Your SO Day, isn't it?

Tuomas, Monday, 29 October 2007 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I have long had a problem with this.

Not a solution for everyone, but for me at the moment it's suiting me so well that I'm working on Sundays and have Friday/Sat as my weekend.

I mostly (not 100%) avoid the Sunday drag - it doesn't simply transfer back to the Saturday, because there is more going on on Saturdays (even if I just want to laze, it seems to help that there is a more general up vibe about) and having Sun as the first work day I can still retain some of my sleepiness, as it's so much quieter heading to and from work and quieter at work.

spectra, Monday, 29 October 2007 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link

i used to get this something chronic -- never had a job i enjoyed but i was eventually able to overcome it by being less worried about losing my job, which i think underpinned the nagging sense of dread. i did this by using my skills as a leader of men to passive-aggressively "organize" a mutiny that got our evil boss given the old heave-ho.

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 29 October 2007 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link

my solution to this problem was to cut down on drinking on Saturdays, and it worked perfectly.

Ste, Monday, 29 October 2007 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link

course, now i have zero social life

Ste, Monday, 29 October 2007 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Dueds Sunday afternoon is the WORST for me. As a kid we all "kept the Sabbath day holy" by sitting around watching PBS for seven hours until dinner. Couldn't talk on phone to friends, hang out, leave the house, play video games (arbitrary boundaries for real). So that feeling dwindles even to this day, a slow crushing boredom.

Abbott, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I start to feel the doom that the weekend is nearly over around 4pm on Saturday.

Dr Morbius, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

man i got a bad case of this yesterday, and it hasnt quit yet. WTF?

69, Monday, 29 October 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, dude. Sunday dread. NEVER a cool thing - it was especially bad when I was in college, visiting my long-distance gf. That blew.

Nowadays, I usually take out my work and figure out EXACTLY what I'll be doing first thing on Monday morning and then start that. I usually end up working about an hour or two on Sundays in order to overcome this feeling, and, if not EXCEEDINGLY hungover, I will typically be free of the dread by noon on Sunday, and have a very clear idea of what I will be doing first thing on Monday.

This is also aided by the fact that I voluntarily get to work by 6:30 every morning so that I have 2 + hours before anyone else even sets foot in the place, so I can usually knock out the first task or two and be running at full speed by the time others make their way out of traffic.

My wife thinks me insane for my morning proclivity, but she doesn't complain when I walk the dog EVERY morning.

B.L.A.M., Monday, 29 October 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

oh yes. chronic since childhood. starting late afternoon usually. "sunday feelings" we call them.

andrew m., Monday, 29 October 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Debilitating. Cups of tea. Yawning. Leftovers. Hungover. Bad TV. Overcast. Laundry. Broke. Everything But the Girl on the radio.

paulhw, Monday, 29 October 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't have this in college, Sundays were really busy with homework to catch up on and meetings, and I looked forward to church and brunch in the morning. Hungover Sundays involved guilt for sleeping through church and frustration with having too much homework to sleep more, but no sadness, either.

But now I have graduated, don't know anyone, and spend my weekends alone. By Sunday afternoon I'm glum and feeling like my life is pointless because I've just spent 2 days lying around with a novel, I'm looking forward to work for human interaction and a sense of purpose, and that's just pathetic, there has to be more to life than that!

Maria, Monday, 29 October 2007 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

When I lived in Chicago, my, umm, dudes and I had a regular Sunday-night guyish chill-out thing that mostly involved watching HBO series and eating subs between multiplayer Halo games and whatnot -- pretty much the most base lazy-dude weekend-ending imaginable, but man was it healthy and reassuring to sit around doing nothing in good company for a couple hours before diving back into the work-week.

I was surprised by this thread, because I was having this REALLY bad last night, and for no good reason -- I think I may have watched one too many episodes of a Law & Order marathon during the afternoon and sent myself into a listless funk. Alternate explanation that has been offered: FULL MOON

nabisco, Monday, 29 October 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Change in weather / getting dark early doesn't help. Kills any idea of, I dunno, sitting outside with a glass of wine reading.

paulhw, Monday, 29 October 2007 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

i get it worse in the fall than any other time. had it real bad last night, so bad that i pretty much had a tiny temper tantrum.

homosexual II, Monday, 29 October 2007 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

and its much, much worse when i've had a fun weekend. kind of like the major crankiness i'd get as a kid after staying up all night at a sleepover and the boring shitty sunday the next day of doing homework and eating pot roast and the gross ticking of the opening scene of 60 minutes.

homosexual II, Monday, 29 October 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I tend to get more melancholy in the fall for a week or two than get the Sunday blues, but it happens sometimes. Sunday night is very often stay at home, cook and watch TV night and these days there's often a fire in the fireplace.

Michael White, Monday, 29 October 2007 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

and the gross ticking of the opening scene of 60 minutes

this was my sunday dep soundtrack too.

sunny successor, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

ts: Sunday evening sad vs Sunday evening drunkening

The former is hard to get through but ends in a good night's sleep, the latter involves a lot more smiling and laughter but also a Monday morning hangover/around.

nickalicious, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I get the Sunday evening sad hardest when I'm driving home on the lonesome highway after dropping of my son at his mom's.

nickalicious, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Can I start another thread about Monday mornings?

Mark C, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

As long as it has Garfield!

Abbott, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

oh shiiiit

gff, Monday, 10 December 2007 04:08 (seventeen years ago) link

ok what you need to do is make sure you always have something semi-stressful to do on monday morning, meaning you really won't have much time for sunday night sad, only sunday night post-dinner here-we-go stress rush
but really i don't think this feeling ever goes away
even my most pleasant, beautiful amazing sundays are partly that amazing b/c they happen on the edge of this sadness

rrrobyn, Monday, 10 December 2007 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link

yes i have every night post-dinner post-class stress rush which means i go to bed and can't fall asleep because i'm all busy and mind is thinking about 230948 things so it catches up when i'm walking down the street and i get walking down the street sad. sort of like what ned said up there. and then it returns on sundays cause i know it's all going to start again tomorrow and mondays are my longsest days.

anyway. i'm going to take some benadryl and make myself go to bed now!

tehresa, Monday, 10 December 2007 05:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Getting some Monday work tasks done seems to be the only thing that wards it off, and then only partially. I can convince myself that I am 'ahead' in some way. But this week is the first week for about a year that I haven't felt totally overwhelmed by work regardless of all those little tactics.

ljubljana, Monday, 10 December 2007 07:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I get Monday evening sad more than any other. It comes from childhood, and I can recreate it all too well with the help of the recent Laurie Johnston CD boxset, which has themes from This Is Your Life and World In Action on it (albeit not the "prog" World In Action theme that would probably tip me over the edge).

On Sunday evenings I see the whole week stretching before me and wonder what I am going to do to fill it in my role as full-time dad.

PJ Miller, Monday, 10 December 2007 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link

oh my god i got it sooooo bad last night. its really worse for me in the fall/winter and kind of comes to a head around the holidays. i usually feel completely relieved once january rolls around. anyway i felt completely drained yesterday and dreading life and all the bullshit thats going on at work so much that all i could do was lay in bed and stare at the ceiling. I AM PATHETIC.

GHEEEEEEEEEEE, Monday, 10 December 2007 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link

not so much sadness as just frustration - wanting the weekend to not end. mondays not even that bad tho, 'another fresh start/today i will achieve and conquer' thing.

blueski, Monday, 10 December 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

that's a good way of looking at it :-)

Surmounter, Monday, 14 January 2008 02:07 (seventeen years ago) link

'another fresh start/today i will achieve and conquer' thing.

^this never works for me bcuz i know i won't conquer anything

J0rdan S., Monday, 14 January 2008 02:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i'll just come home and nap

J0rdan S., Monday, 14 January 2008 02:08 (seventeen years ago) link

my sister had what i thought was a sort of elegant way of dealing with this in high school. she always said sunday nights depressed her, so she developed a routine of making a box of kraft macaroni & cheese, and then eating the whole thing while watching melodramatic made-for-tv movies on a small black and white tv in her bedroom. there were always made-for-tv movies about disease or divorce or whatever on sunday nights.

so there you go: melodrama + macaroni

tipsy mothra, Monday, 14 January 2008 02:18 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

so rowdy tonight

rrrobyn, Monday, 31 March 2008 00:32 (sixteen years ago) link

for some reason
wkend is reversed and upside down

rrrobyn, Monday, 31 March 2008 00:34 (sixteen years ago) link

This is the big one but

The difficult earlier reichs (darraghmac), Sunday, 3 January 2016 15:58 (nine years ago) link

what a bloody waste of 16 days, eh

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 January 2016 16:23 (nine years ago) link

spent half of them sick just to spice it up

Noodle Vague, Sunday, 3 January 2016 16:26 (nine years ago) link

I realise I should be grateful to have had so many days off but yes, yes I am feeling this very much

I have some work I promised someone "by Christmas" and have spent the past 10 days going "well at least I could try to do it before the first Monday in Jan" and guess what I haven't done too

a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 3 January 2016 19:54 (nine years ago) link

one month passes...

blah

PS I don't remember what that work was but I probably still haven't done it

a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 28 February 2016 17:40 (eight years ago) link

The person who had been expecting the work probably hasn't remembered either. I've had that happen a few times - procrastinated on doing something, worried the whole time that the person who requested the work will ask at any minute when it's going to be completed, then completed it in a rush only to find that the other person has completely forgotten about it.

bored at work (snoball), Sunday, 28 February 2016 18:11 (eight years ago) link

hugs

Szechuan TV (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 28 February 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link

eleven months pass...

I need a new strategy for avoiding this.

Just come back from a really nice 4 hour walk, and the dread hits me as soon as I'm back home.

Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Sunday, 19 February 2017 18:51 (seven years ago) link

Walks, trips to places, watching TV, playing videogames, eating - all nice distractions but when they're done I go back to feeling the SNS again almost right away.

A week and a bit of this shite to go, and then I'm freeeeeeeeee again. I mean, unemployed again.

― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Sunday, April 27, 2014 12:14 PM (two years ago)

^^^ this temp gig got extended, then eventually made permanent. I was thinking tonight about how many of my colleagues treated me like garbage when it seemed like I wouldn't be there for more than three months, only to two-facedly start acting nice when it became clear that I was going to be around permanently. Three years and I'm done with this place, particularly after this stupid-o Friday just past where the desks got replaced because the managers are trying to fit more people into the office. Got this feeling that they aren't telling us everything and that we're going to get screwed over. Need to get a new job but basically I'd be doing exactly the same thing somewhere else in more or less the same BS conditions.

2017, how bad could it be? (snoball), Sunday, 19 February 2017 19:22 (seven years ago) link

Actually being unemployed again almost sounds appealing, apart from the lack of money and the increased time spent dealing with my relatives.

2017, how bad could it be? (snoball), Sunday, 19 February 2017 19:23 (seven years ago) link

half term so no work tomorrow and the difference is palpable, tho i can still feel SNS on the fringes out there. i wish peace and freedom from this shit to all of you suffering - when the revolution comes every night will be Friday night

Treesh-Hurt (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 19 February 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link

Going out for Indian food has become a standard prophylactic/treatment for SNS.

mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 19 February 2017 20:02 (seven years ago) link

I have lost touch with SNS over the last few years, and almost miss it really. I have got some Sunday night anxiety right now though. A 2 month old Google Pixel's screen has already become completely unresponsive, causing much noise and consternation in the house. And then someone got murdered by a 19 yr old kid outside my local boozer on Friday night, an incident that has left me risk assessing whether going out after dark with the young 'un might not be a good idea anymore. But fuck it, you can't think like that. Was just gawping at the eerily quiet crime-scene earlier and thinking about how easy it is to end up out of this game and the hazards of "not taking any shit" off people.

calzino, Sunday, 19 February 2017 20:05 (seven years ago) link

five months pass...

I actually had a pretty good afternoon (brunch and a movie). Then on the bus coming home two guys nearly got into a fight. Then when I got off that bus to change to another bus, one of the guys also got off, and was apologizing to me and everyone else in the vicinity in the way that makes you think "Crazy? Stoned? Some combination?" Then while doing the dishes after dinner, my sink wouldn't drain (running the garbage disposal only kicked more grime into the standing water). I could, and probably ought to tear myself away from the computer and go to bed. But experience suggests that I will only lie there for what feels like hours, brooding on my issues and not going to sleep.

Diana Fire (j.lu), Monday, 7 August 2017 01:07 (seven years ago) link

I have too much work to do before vacation.

El Tomboto, Monday, 7 August 2017 03:06 (seven years ago) link

four months pass...

aaaah

final day of holiday after extended not being in work sad

aaaaaaaghh

a passing spacecadet, Monday, 1 January 2018 19:57 (seven years ago) link

I'm

I'm actually looking fwd to work tomorrow

remember the lmao (darraghmac), Monday, 1 January 2018 20:41 (seven years ago) link

^ fp'd u for that

(mostly cause i'm already doing tomorrows work rn)

♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 1 January 2018 20:44 (seven years ago) link

xp wha

but congrats?

(sorry Bateau, hope it's going OK)

a passing spacecadet, Monday, 1 January 2018 21:38 (seven years ago) link

With a young adult with autism in the house, christmas can present an absolute nightmare and has pretty much delivered this year and some. So I'm saying good riddance holiday season, and ya outdoor LED projectors from ASDA sucked shit! But I've been on the end of that trudging out of the house at 5am into a wall of freezing january rain - I can't go on like this anymore - type desolation enough times to know how much that also sucks as well.

calzino, Monday, 1 January 2018 21:44 (seven years ago) link

xp it's ok, i've relatively little to complain. trying to somehow squirm out of the capitalist cage is by far my new years resolution though. feels like i have to fight hard for every non-working hour. it's probably mostly down to my own insane feelings of loyalty and responsibility, but it's there's no balance, it's off the scale.

♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 1 January 2018 21:49 (seven years ago) link

xp but i'm moaning because people like calzino have a whole lot more on their plate, and quite frankly I don't know how you guys do it.

♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 1 January 2018 21:50 (seven years ago) link

It gets a lot easier after you've lost your fucking mind and had your 3rd nervous breakdown and there isn't much ego or self esteem left to cause any problems at this point. Joking, of course!

calzino, Monday, 1 January 2018 21:54 (seven years ago) link

it's true that I actually have a pretty cushy job (the main worries are that management will work that out and get rid of me, plus the embarrassment that everyone except mgmt surely already knows I don't do anything useful, but I'm not smart or dedicated enough to seek out actual useful tasks and do them - also it's boring and just being in the office with all the constant noise and politics does my head in, but that's p. much a given of the working universe today, at least for desk job drones like me with no physical strength or people skills), and I'm lucky to have had a good long xmas break at all

but hey

good vibes to calzino + family

a passing spacecadet, Monday, 1 January 2018 22:14 (seven years ago) link

Thanks aps, same to you xxx

calzino, Monday, 1 January 2018 22:27 (seven years ago) link

Good vibes to both of you fine people

Monday can suck it. 👊

♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 1 January 2018 22:45 (seven years ago) link

one year passes...

Easter Sunday Night Sad - possibly the saddest of Sunday Night Sads because there isn't even the distracting anxiety/boredom/irritation of having to go to work tomorrow.

just another country (snoball), Sunday, 21 April 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link

Solved this problem by getting a job that's had me at work for the last 38 hours, in 30 minutes i'm gonna hit Sunday night euphoria.

After Cease to Brexist (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 21 April 2019 19:55 (five years ago) link

I've had Easter weekends that have been so quiet that it's felt like 4 Sundays in a row.

Fortunately, this wasn't one of them. I've hardly been inside at all this weekend.

Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 21 April 2019 20:09 (five years ago) link

four months pass...

if I am at home, and it's too hot to work on personal projects, I feel totally apathetic.

Another totally unproductive late August Bank Holiday weekend coasts to a halt.

just another country (snoball), Monday, 26 August 2019 17:15 (five years ago) link

two years pass...

Wake up, stomach starts gnawing, this gloomy half-light will be the colour of the day, not even a day of freedom cos already i have to prepare towards work, do the chores to be ready for tomorrow and tomorrow, nowhere to go and noone to see, the day will rush by and throw me into the Baal-oven of another week, over and over, workhouse treadmill, only escape route is death maybe, completely pwned by the machine

it isn't even a Fraktion (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 November 2021 08:06 (three years ago) link

yeah Sunday late afternoon always feels really empty

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 14 November 2021 19:42 (three years ago) link

I felt exactly as you describe noodle vague, all day I even felt like my body had been preparing itself in sleep, so 'ready' was I when I woke up (lead in the guts, heart beating). Spent the day sort of avoiding time but the fucker passes anyway.

I wonder if this is something intensified in/by November? Something about the closing days, the absence of holiday - except for onrushing Christmas and all that entails.

Anyway, solidarity.

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Sunday, 14 November 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link

Wahhh

calstars, Sunday, 14 November 2021 20:31 (three years ago) link

Feeling this

mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 14 November 2021 20:52 (three years ago) link

i gotta say Chinaski yeah the gloom and the early nights make it feel worse i think

it isn't even a Fraktion (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 November 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link

"I wonder if this is something intensified in/by November?"

Also first time in two years with anything approaching normality.

I am on a nice block of reading which has helped battle through the early darkness. Kept turning pages for most of the month so far. Got a pot of green tea ready and won't be going to bed until near midnight, till a few more chapters are done but that's not for everyone.

xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 November 2021 22:09 (three years ago) link

November is hard. I remember it being so last year too. I guess I thought it would be easier with being able to do more things.

suggest bainne (gyac), Sunday, 14 November 2021 22:23 (three years ago) link

I think climate change is making it worse, at least here - we've got less of our usual misty rain, more horrible windy downpours that you can't go out in.

Lily Dale, Sunday, 14 November 2021 22:35 (three years ago) link

Choose your adventure

ncxkd, Sunday, 14 November 2021 22:37 (three years ago) link

this completely dominates my being, even on Friday nights. there’s this annoying MIT professor with a ponytail who said the definition of depression is the inability to appreciate a sunset and I think he might have something there

brimstead, Sunday, 14 November 2021 22:50 (three years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/DVFYkQE.png

ncxkd, Sunday, 14 November 2021 22:59 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

Nothing I love more than waking up on a Sunday morning and instantly feeling sick with anxiety at the prospect of returning to work

satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 March 2023 09:11 (one year ago) link

one year passes...

I think retirement is the cure for this

ncxkd, Sunday, 28 April 2024 20:48 (nine months ago) link

nine months pass...

A cold blue unrest squeezes at my heart

Zurich is Starmed (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 February 2025 10:27 (one week ago) link

I feel it, too. Will get through it though, sail I must

willem, Sunday, 2 February 2025 10:32 (one week ago) link

Bemused that I don't seem to have posted on this thread before.

"Oh God," is the gist of it.

djh, Sunday, 2 February 2025 21:42 (one week ago) link

stopped getting this after I stopped having to be in the office on mondays. supposed to be in tomorrow but fk that. ~vibing~

secretary of state for fractal pluripotencies (||||||||), Sunday, 2 February 2025 22:02 (one week ago) link

That would only work for me if I was committed to doing "non-work things" (pottering in the garden, washing up etc, etc).

djh, Sunday, 2 February 2025 22:18 (one week ago) link


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