Seriously, How Annoying Is a Midweek Fourth of July?

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For a lot of us, America’s midweek birthday leaves us with only one day off, making it more difficult to carve out a three- or four-day weekend without expending precious vacation days. Whether you think this a great summer tragedy sort of depends on you. To those people (present company included), this bit of bad timing feels like some kind of ancient Roman curse cast on us at the creation of the calendar. Surely those Romans, with an assist