Monday: High-up or Low-down?
Monday: High-up or Low-down?
Mondays sneak up on me. Sundays I spend the afternoon frittering time away: crossword puzzles from the newspaper, baseball or football games on TV (happily, both in August!), taking long walks, and eating too much junk food. It's blissful. It's relaxing.
It's over.
Monday the World returns with business hours, demands, schedules, and to-do lists. Things I vaguely thought of last week as "I'll get to that next week" now wait expectantly. Next week is here, and they need to get done.
Phone calls.
Edits.
Chores.
Appointments.
It can get overpowering, especially when Thing A has to get done by Date X. Worse are Mondays in the last half of the month, when what hasn't gotten done this month begins to collide with what I said I'd do next month. Really? I said I'd do a newsletter in August? But there's only one more Monday after this one!
The good side of it, I suppose, is that I get busy. Things get done. Appointments are scheduled. Edits are started. A schedule forms that might not be totally realistic, but I'll be working at it. By noon on Monday I usually feel productive. It's different from the lazy Sunday afternoon feeling, but it isn't bad. If Sundays are for recharging, then Mondays start the next charge. Onward and upward!
Mondays sneak up on me. Sundays I spend the afternoon frittering time away: crossword puzzles from the newspaper, baseball or football games on TV (happily, both in August!), taking long walks, and eating too much junk food. It's blissful. It's relaxing.
It's over.
Monday the World returns with business hours, demands, schedules, and to-do lists. Things I vaguely thought of last week as "I'll get to that next week" now wait expectantly. Next week is here, and they need to get done.
Phone calls.
Edits.
Chores.
Appointments.
It can get overpowering, especially when Thing A has to get done by Date X. Worse are Mondays in the last half of the month, when what hasn't gotten done this month begins to collide with what I said I'd do next month. Really? I said I'd do a newsletter in August? But there's only one more Monday after this one!
The good side of it, I suppose, is that I get busy. Things get done. Appointments are scheduled. Edits are started. A schedule forms that might not be totally realistic, but I'll be working at it. By noon on Monday I usually feel productive. It's different from the lazy Sunday afternoon feeling, but it isn't bad. If Sundays are for recharging, then Mondays start the next charge. Onward and upward!
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