Oh Great... It's Friday the 13th

Oh good.  Today is Friday the 13th.  Way to ruin the best day of the week, you stupid piece of crap superstition.

I'm not superstitious at all.  Not at all.  Hell, I shave during the NHL playoffs.  I walk under ladders.  I spill salt like it's the in thing to do.  But today... I have had a bad week, and I was fearing that the level of suckitude would not decrease even though the weekend is one work shift away, and now the calendar tells me that it's Friday the 13th and I just know that sucking shall continue at least until tomorrow.

Being the nerd I am, I checked the wikipedia article on Friday the 13th to try and find the origin of the superstition.  Apparently, no one knows:

Several theories have been proposed about the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition.
One theory states that it is a modern amalgamation of two older superstitions: that thirteen is an unlucky number and that Friday is an unlucky day.

• In numerology, the number twelve is considered the number of completeness, as reflected in the twelve months of the year, twelve hours of the clock, twelve gods of Olympus, twelve tribes of Israel, twelve Apostles of Jesus, the 12 successors of Muhammad in Shia Islam, etc., whereas the number thirteen was considered irregular, transgressing this completeness. There is also a superstition, thought by some to derive from the Last Supper or a Norse myth, that having thirteen people seated at a table will result in the death of one of the diners.
• Friday has been considered an unlucky day at least since the 14th century's The Canterbury Tales,^[5] and many other professions have regarded Friday as an unlucky day to undertake journeys or begin new projects. Black Friday has been associated with stock market crashes and other disasters since the 1800s.^[3][6]
• One author, noting that references are all but nonexistent before 1907 but frequently seen thereafter, has argued that its popularity derives from the publication that year of Thomas W. Lawson's popular novel Friday, the Thirteenth,^[7] in which an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th.^[1]
• Records of the superstition are rarely found before the 20th century, when it became extremely common. The connection between the Friday the 13th superstition and the Knights Templar was popularized in Dan Brown's 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code and in John J. Robinson's 1989 work Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry. On Friday, 13 October 1307, hundreds of the Knights Templar were arrested in France, an action apparently motivated financially and undertaken by the efficient royal bureaucracy to increase the prestige of the crown. Philip IV was the force behind this ruthless move, but it has also tarnished the historical reputation of Clement V. From the very day of Clement V's coronation, the king falsely charged the Templars with heresy, immorality and abuses, and the scruples of the Pope were compromised by a growing sense that the burgeoning French State might not wait for the Church, but would proceed independently.^[8] However, experts agree that this is a relatively recent correlation, and most likely a modern-day invention.^[5][6][9]

 Fascinating, eh?

Anyway... duck and cover.  Don't do anything crazy like trip and fall while Jason is chasing you with a machete and then just sit there and wait for him to start hacking you up.  Also, whatever you do do not lose your virginity today. That's just like begging to be the psycho killer's next victim.

Happy Friday the 13th.

Urgh.