I saw Bagfoot; humans are not designed to M; new calendar meta

Bagfoot

I saw a car with a novelty fake license plate (on the front--I assume the back of the car had a real license plate) that read BIGFOOT, in a Bigfootesqe font. But instead of the letter "I", there was instead a Bigfoot silhouette. But it didn't work. Bigfoot, neutral standing pose, doesn't look like the letter "I"; like other humanoids, he looks like the letter "A". So it looks like the license plate says BAGFOOT. To achieve the effect they want, they should ask Bigfoot to pose for a photo with the palms of both hands splayed out above his head, and each foot pointing off to either side. Then he'd look like an "I". If anyone knows how to get in touch with Bigfoot's team, please give me their contact information, or if you could pass this along to them on my behalf, I'd appreciate it.

Y?CA

I'm trying to picture the YMCA dance in my head, and I can't. I'm certain I've seen it before. The four members of the Village People contort their bodies in the shapes of the four letters: Y, M, C and A. I can picture the "Y": stand straight with both your arms curved out and up. There's no way to make your head disappear,¹ so it ends up looking more like a Ψ, but never mind. It's close enough to give people the right impression.

I can picture the "C": Similar to the Y, but curve your back so your arms are curving out and stage right. I can picture the "A"; as mentioned, the human body naturally resembles an "A" in a neutral standing pose. Maybe splay the legs out and hold your arms flat against your sides to increase the effect.

I can't, for the life of me, picture someone forming their body into the shape of an "M". I don't know what the Village People do, but there's no way they can form a convincing M. I suspect it's only possible in a Junji Ito manga.

I've changed my mind about calendars

In the US, the week usually starts on Sunday and ends on Satuday. Nobody really knows why, probably some nineteenth-century religious tomfoolery. That's where most of our cherished centuries-old traditions come from: some guy named Jebedeezer made them up in 1873.

Anyway, I always went along with this system, because I usually do until I have a good reason not to. I try to be biased but fair; if it doesn't make much difference, I tend to stick with the system I know, but if there's a good case for changing, I do.

This happened with the clock. I was a 12-hour critter, AM/PM through and through; but then I spent many years working the graveyard shift at my previous job, and I didn't always have a good intuitive sense of whether it was AM or PM, and upon waking I'd often look at the clock and freak out because I thought I slept for 17 hours. I've been on 24 hour time ever since. It's actually helped me in my current job, because I have to do a lot of arithmetic involving time, and that's much easier to do when you use 24-hour time for everything.

Anyway, I recently had a similar revelation about calendars. It occurred to me that my life is divided up into two discrete chunks of days: the 5-day workweek, and the 2-day weekend. It makes no sense whatsoever for one of those chunks to be non-contiguous. The calendar is like the map of time, and I've been using some sort of damn Gauss–Krüger projection.

This wouldn't matter as much if I was still at one of the jobs where I didn't get weekends off, but I do, and I want to see the days of the weekend together. So I swapped to Monday-Sunday. I'll let you know if this leads to any grand epiphanies about the nature of time.