When you get up early and go to bed late all week, and around Wednesday morning you start feeling that you can not continue this without getting a proper sleep first.
- Why didn't you come to school yesterday?
-Er.. I was having a mid-week crisis.
Usually occuring about Wednesday - half way to the weekend - and categorized by doing something drastic, but not too drastic.... Just something that is enough to get you through the week and, perhaps, to get other people to look or act differently towards you.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)