I'm a April Fool
Posted by Stuart at 08:52 AM on April 01, 2003What a bummer of a day this has turned out to be! First, I spent several hours last night and this morning filling out my income tax online. It was a strange year for me with contracting (self-employment), coaching the swim team, and collecting unemployment. Unfortunately, last year I miscalculated how much I would owe and now I have to pay a lot. I feel like an April Fool.
I am not sure my day is going to get much better: I'm making a trip to the dentist to fill a cavity this afternoon...
In happier news, I picked up the key to my new apartment last night. Of course the door and the fan that they said would be fixed and the couch they said would be delivered, weren't.
Oh well. If it sounds like I am in a bad mood, I'm not really. I am starting to get the hang of the mai bpen rai ("no worries") Thai attitude :)
Sounds plausable to me. I looked it up on the net and found this "Ask Yahoo" page on the topic.
Speaking of New Year's, Thai New Years, called Songkran, is less than two weeks away. I think I will go to Laos to celebrate (they celebrate it there as well as Cambodia and Myannmar).
mai bpen rai!!!
When it rains it pours, hunh?? :-)
Regarding April Fools Day, I heard on the radio a tale about how April Fools Day came about.
When the calendar was changed from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar, New Years Day went from April 1, to January 1. Not all people accepted the change in calendars, and those who did not were considered fools for continuing to recognize April 1 as the first day in the new year.
Interesting, hunh? Don't know if it's true. Maybe I can do that today ... find out the validity of the story.
Love you!!!