Posted by Morpork at April 20th, 2007

I define a horriday as a day during a holiday where you are obligated to do work specifically defined by holidays as work you temporarily are freed from needing to do.

Historically, horridays do not just apply their effects on those few days but also on holidays themselves. This projection of dread is also known as fear-of-horridays or simply as pressure. In the back of your mind, you know one or more of the holidays will have to be horridays and you wished that it was not today.