Am I the only person in the world who likes Mondays?

By Jason Slater in Reader

Posted in General on December 3, 2007 at 4:53 pm

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Am I the only person in the world who likes Mondays?

Most people I talk to can’t wait until Friday - personally I can’t wait until Monday. Does that really sound so strange? People often look at me in horror when I tell them about my love of Mondays. But. there is something fresh about Mondays, something new and something optimistic. On Mondays I draw a line under all those outstanding jobs and set my schedule for the week ahead. Key data backups occur over the weekend and are checked on Mondays and I often visit our off-site storage facility with the weekly IT archive box. My user base also seems a lot quieter on Mondays, maybe something they did at the weekend?

On Mondays I find time to check the budgets, do the paperwork and scan upcoming schedules for maintenance renewals and even get some time to check some of those email newsletters that seem to come through the email system with an ever increasing ferocity. Catching up with technical Blogs also happens regularly on Mondays and software development also comes a lot easier earlier in the week (on Monday afternoons in particular) and I am often at my best coding away in Cobol or C# (or whatever else I happening to be working on

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