First of May

From about two days ago I've been humming Bee Gees' "First of May" -- the theme song of a J-dorama I've just finished watching, and which happens to fit this time of the year -- but somehow it escapes me that it is Labor Day, until I came in to lab just now and found only one other student.

Eka was profoundly stunned when I told her, as she and colleagues had been awaiting this holiday for months.

Ah, the hazards of flexible working hours. XD