Gloomiest Day of the Year

Today is the gloomiest this year, scientist says

By Shelley Emling
COX NEWS SERVICE

LONDON - Having a bad day? Well, no wonder. According to one scientist,
today is the gloomiest day of 2006.

Cliff Arnall, a health psychologist at the University of Cardiff in
Wales, has devised a formula that combines personal and seasonal
factors to calculate the year's emotional low point.

Arnall said January is a time when people are simply working and don't
have a lot of events, parties, or holidays to look forward to.

People are struggling to cope not only with the bleak weather, but also
with the debts they amassed by spending too much over the holidays.

It's also a time when people are starting to feel like failures because
they've broken their resolutions so shortly after making them.

On paper, the formula looks like this:

Rumpelstiltskin...

I hope this isn't the same person who analyzes and informs us that,
according to her analysis, Cowpatty Montana is the most pleasant
and fulfilling cosmopolitan area for sophisticated urbanites in the
entire United States.

Earl...

The question of course is who made the determination that there
were 6 months between 23 Jan and 23 June.

Was it the reporter (traditionally without a clue), or was it
the researcher (also often without a clue).

If the later, the whole mess gets flushed.

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