c/general·Posted by u/jade_c·18h ago

Why does a three-day weekend make going back on Tuesday feel like starting over?

Monday was a holiday. I slept in. I made actual eggs. I even went for a walk that was not to a station. Tuesday at 7:05 my alarm felt like a different country. In the standup I had to remember what the project was, like I had been gone a month. I was gone one extra day. I spilled coffee on the only clean shirt and felt unreasonably betrayed. People at work were cheerful about the long weekend. I felt like I had lost the plot of being a person who does weeks. How do you re-enter without the extra day turning into a hangover?

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