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Unit Seven I. Background Information 1.Party Season Party season refers to the Christmas season, or the holiday season. In its popular sense, it extends four weeks before Christmas Day and for two weeks after. It is usually said to take place between approximately October and January. It has been found to have a proportionate effect on health, compared to the rest time of the year. 2. Blue Monday Blue Monday here refers to the first working Monday after Christmas season. People usually are in a lower mood. During the Middle Ages the Monday before the beginning of Lent (四旬斋复活节前有一个为期40天的大斋期 was called Blue Monday. There are two different thought as to why it got that name. One holds that the churches were decorated in blue on that day. Another believes that because so many people spent the weekend before Lent in drunken revels, they woke up mighty blue and hung over on that Monday morning. And then theres a later version of the origin of blue Monday, this one stemming from the days of sailing ships. Monday - any Monday - was flogging day (鞭笞日). Sailors who had made mistakes were brought before the mast and flogged until they were black and blue. (From Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins by William and Mary Morris There is a song titled as “Blue Monday”. BLUE MONDAYFats DominoBlue Monday, how I hate blue MondayGot to work like a slave all dayHere come Tuesday, oh hard TuesdayIm so tired, got no time to playHere come Wednesday, Im beat to my socksMy gal calls, got to tell her that Im outCause Thursday is a hard workin dayAnd Friday Ill get my pay Saturday morning, oh Saturday morningAll my tiredness has gone awayGot my money and my honeyAnd Im out on the town to playSunday morning, my head is badBut its worth it, for the times that Ive hadBut Ive got to get my restCause Monday is a mess 3．Stress Management: A Manual for Nurses It is a widely-read course book published in 1983. The author is Dr. Vicki Lachman who studies in stress. As a pra