FRIDAY
How to cope with Friday.
Friday is not like other days - not just because its a different day of the week but because it has different implications for work.
Monday is fairly quiet because everyone wishes they were still buried under the duvet swamp and trying to avoid the agony of dragging to work for a whole week ahead. Not that I have trouble waking up on Monday. I am awake sharp at 6.45 ready to go. But then I was also awake at 5.45 and 4.45 also ready to go. I feel for people who can't wake up in the morning. Whe a horizontal teenager I was given an industrial strength alarm clock which went off like a tornado and I spent the rest of the day cringing if somebody whispered too loudly.
Setting you radio alarm to very loud is not a good idea either because you spend the day jumping when somebody talks to you. From experience, any problems getting up in the morning are simply cured simply by an infant/toddler/child.
Getting up also means you get to the shower first when the towels are not soggy lumps. eating without screams and watching Breakfast TV which is full of necessary and interesting information about house prices, how to hang out washing and the latest global famine.
But as said Friday is different. The downside is that you may have to face doing the nasty bits of work you have been putting off all week or face the horror of them still being there Monday when you creep in. Also, people or things you have managed to avoid all week zero in like missiles and make sure your diary is cram full well before next week. It is also the best time to go into the garden when its quiet, the birds are singing and you can hear the neighbours fighting.

My advice for Friday is to try and slide all unpleasant and unwanted tasks in the bin or next door. Also, tell the receptionist/person who takes calls you are very busy and to take messages - lose all such messages on Monday morning and deny all knowledge later.
The upside to Friday is that in the evening you can live it up a bit. I always have big plans for Friday evening. Mostly though by 9.00 pm I am reaching for the Drinking Chocolate and headed for the duvet zone, a book and the Shipping Forecast. Wild times or what!
But then of course there's Saturday - now that's different.