Since the majority of people in america have monday to friday jobs, and many do not wish to go have drinks on a tuesday, friday is a day to gather with friends. People who plan parties and events know that most people have more availability on fridays and weekends so they plan more parties and events on those days.
I bust my ass Monday through Friday; in any given week, I've built networks, deployed servers, launched new services, designed fliers and marketing or promotional materials, interacted with scores of clients, sat in on meetings involving everything from personnel to computer security issues, cleaned up hacked websites, scoured workstations clean of viruses, and sometimes even presented seminars locally.<p>On Saturday and Sunday, the phone gets quieter. I typically only get a couple of calls. I get to sleep in until 8 or so. I get to work on my truck or my speedster, or the garden, or any one of my other projects. Friday evenings, my girlfriend and I go climbing down in Rancho Cordova.<p>I'm not less busy on Saturday and Sunday, but the stuff I do on those days gives me the energy to get started on Monday again.<p>So, yes, thank "god" it's Friday.<p>(Hmph.)
This article seems stupid to me.<p>He seems to be saying procrastination is caused by a fixation on the weekend but he goes on to say that can't be fixed (Under "An Alternative to the Week?"). Then he lists ways to fix the thing he just admitted couldn't be fixed.<p>The list gives suggestions that are either not related to his point (what does reflecting on each day have to do with loving the weekend?) or are just flat out stupid (You should go out drinking on a Tuesday and come in Wednesday with a hang over just to avoid drinking on Friday?).<p>I'm all for fighting procrastination but I don't think finding ways to not look forward to the weekend has anything to do with that.
On a related note, I always feel awkward when people say "enjoy the long weekend" or something similar. Even before I started my own business, I never had a predictable weekends-off job schedule.