Every morning, when I get to my desk, I change my voicemail message so that callers know my whereabouts and whether or not to try to get hold of me on my cellphone. As usual, this morning I re-recorded my message, beginning as always with today's date.
Ella, who sits in my team, turned to me and said, "That sounded really strange. When you read out the date."
It did sound strange, but only because today's date is no longer just "any old date". I think it was because I was using it in such mundane circumstances.
Used in similar commonplace contexts, I guess it will continue to sound strange for a long, long time. I wonder if it will never again be just like any other unremarkable date in the year. I know that it shouldn't be, but at the same time it feels sad that it won't be. But most of all that it ever had to become remarkable at all.
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