Just make it Monday, please

[jay]

I often dread weekends... this one perhaps a bit more than usual. Today... yes/no decision on funding the Arctic field season at 11am. Then couples-counselling tonight. I wish I'd lined up lunch today, but have been too preoccupied to plan ahead. Tomorrow night... no plans. Some slightly-stressful socializing with the kids in the afternoon. Should have planned ahead, again. Sunday... Father's Day... no plans (sound familiar? heh) other than I need to confront the issues around my father's illness again and give him a call.

Why do other people look forward to weekends? For me, work is generally more satisfying and less stressful... still, three days and it will be over, thankfully.

Comments

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

I'm usually doing something (more errands and chores than social), so I don't see weekends as a relaxing time, or an unusually "fun" time, nor as time to sleep in (I don't particularly like sleeping in).

I do, however, look forward to weekends. I look forward to the change of pace, having more control over my time, the opportunity to do stuff I want to do that's not work, as well as the opportunity to socialize or seek out non-social entertainment. I don't see worktime as "me" time, so having an official "not day job" break (which is what the weekend is to me) gives me more potential "me" time. And, since I don't have many obligations to other people or other things, a great deal of it usually is "me" time. I like that.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Nearly all of my socializing... and dates, other than with Pat... are during the week, either mid-day or a few evenings. Weekends are generally a barren wasteland socially, I'm not on many invitation lists. I actually tend to think of weekends as down-time for household maintenance, physical plant and otherwise ;-). And "me" time... occurs late at night, usually, or when I'm on travel somewhere.