Mondays

I don't know why, but I have a really hard time with Mondays. I have to force myself to get up, get dressed and go to work on Mondays. I'm always down on Mondays, too. No matter how much fun I have on the weekend, when Monday comes, I find myself depressed. Is it because I long for the day when I no longer have to get up at 5:30 am to go to work? I don't know.

To tell the truth, I really like my job. I'm a legal secretary who specializes in Litigation. And when I'm busy, I really get a rush out of keeping everything going and in the correct order. When I'm preparing a document for an attorney, and I find a subtle grammatical error, or unclear sentence, I discuss it with the attorney. Most of the time I'm right, and that makes me feel really good. And on those occasions when I'm incorrect, I still feel good because I've learned something new!

I like the folks I work with. I've been with my main assignment for nearly ten years (and two law firms). He's an absolute dear. And most of the other lawyers I've worked with have been good, too. (So far, only one bad apple in the bunch, as far as I'm concerned.) I also enjoy working with the other secretaries and find that we all have the same strange type of humor (what do you call 1000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start).

So why is it, then, that I have so much trouble with Mondays.

I'm beginning to think that it's not so much the beginning of the work week, but the end of the weekend that bothers me. Maybe if we just didn't work on Mondays, I would feel better. I don't think having only two days for the weekend is enough. I, for one, spend Saturday running around, trying to get all of my errands done as quickly as possible. I try to keep Sunday for rest whenever possible. But all of that running on Saturday has a tendency to really tire me out, so that I'm more tired on Sunday than I would have been if I hadn't run all those errands on Saturday. If I didn't have to work on Monday, then I could spread my errands out over two days and still have a day of rest.

That's it. I think we should push for the 32 hour week (8 hours, Tuesday through Friday). Then I won't have any more trouble with Mondays.