"But it's a Friday!" ... Not!

Fridays are usually the busiest work day of the week for me. and usually the day I almost always work late. They are almost as bad as Sundays (which I very rarely enjoy because they are never the day I rest and relax)

As I work for a company that makes me submit a timesheet on Fridays by 9am... I have to guess what work I plan to do on a Friday. Invariably the work I actually accomplish on Fridays almost certainly never follows what my timesheet promises.

And so Fridays contain all the promised Friday activities of my time sheet as well as all the unforeseen Friday activities that pop up (anyone for a rude letter that needs a sweet response that boils down to "Don't be dum!"?) and then all the things that need to be ready for the next week that got forgotten during the course of this week ("so you checked that the lists didn't contain anything extraneous... Did you check that everything required on the list has not been omitted?").

Even better is requesting someone respond by Monday on a query and they reply on Friday afternoon with a request to extend the deadline - now how do I get approval for the extension before the due date actually passes?!

And so hence I am still at work after 6pm on this Friday. Funny enough there is always two waves of heavy traffic on the way home. The first on starts at 4:30 pm and abates at 5:30pm for all the clock watchers and normal people. The second one starts after 6pm and goes almost to 7pm for the workaholics. The secret to happiness in traffic is managing to leave work in between these two groups.

So the next time some one asks me at 4pm on a Friday why I am still chained to my desk instead of going home, with the line "But it's a Friday..." My response is "Exactly my point!"

I am practicing my shooeing people away tone of hand waving for the very next occasion.