Saturday Is the Day of Pre-Rest

“No, Saturday is the day of pre-rest. Yeah, so that way, when you actually get to Sunday, you’re rested enough to enjoy your rest.” —Lorelai Gilmore, Gilmore Girls , S1E17 Our marathon-of-marathons has surfaced a lovely bit of wisdom: Lorelai Gilmore has accidentally invented a two-stage Sabbath. Her formulation is, typically for Lorelai, absurd: recover on Saturday so you can achieve maximum…