{"id":210,"date":"2012-02-29T22:57:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T06:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/?p=210"},"modified":"2012-02-29T22:57:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T06:57:27","slug":"leap-day-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/210","title":{"rendered":"Leap Day 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So today is February 29, a day that only occurs (at most) once every four years. Is this a cause for celebration? Well, maybe, but today wasn&#8217;t actually a great day for me. I went to work as usual, and then two things happened:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I finished reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0811204812\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=evillemur-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0811204812\"><em>No Longer Human<\/em><\/a>, which is possibly the most depressing book I&#8217;ve ever read. The narrator attempts suicide at least twice during the course of 177 pages.<\/li>\n<li>Someone told me that a middle-aged gay man I briefly talked to last week referred to me as &#8220;that gay boy&#8221; behind my back, which made me feel all sorts of insecurity. Am I giving off some sort of signal? Do I have strange mannerisms?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And then I was depressed out of my mind. Not enough to actually do anything like drown myself in the ocean with someone I&#8217;m in love with (because I&#8217;m not in love with anyone), but you know, it&#8217;s really hard to see the upside of a book where the narrator wants to die and a gay man who&#8217;s judged you in a way that high school bullies did.<\/p>\n<p>So then I started thinking about other things to take my mind off of my misery. Like random stuff about leap year.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that always bugged me was that the extra day kind of throws things off, since most of the time it&#8217;s assumed that there are 365 days in a year. Take paychecks, for example. If you get paid semi-monthly (that&#8217;s twice a month), you get paid the same amount this year, since you have exactly 24 paychecks that are each 1\/24 your annual salary, as you would in a non-leap year. But is that fair? You&#8217;re working an extra day, and yet you get the same salary. Shouldn&#8217;t you get an extra day&#8217;s worth of pay? Or at the very least, get an extra holiday? I don&#8217;t think companies give an extra day off in leap years.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, if you get paid biweekly (that&#8217;s every two weeks), on average you end up getting paid slightly more in leap years, though you do work an extra day. You&#8217;ll always get paid 1\/26 your annual salary every 14 days, no matter what. So on average, you get 365\/364 times your annual salary in non-leap years, while you get 366\/364 times your annual salary in leap years. The extra 0.27% is negligible, I know. But you hardly ever get anything for free. I guess in this case you still don&#8217;t get it for free, since you&#8217;re working an extra day. I just can&#8217;t win.<\/p>\n<p>Well, March starts tomorrow. Which means I should pay my rent tonight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today is February 29, a day that only occurs (at most) once every four years. Is this a cause for celebration? Well, maybe, but today wasn&#8217;t actually a great day for me. 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