#oneaday Day 53: Finally the Weekend

This week has been really, really long for some reason.

It's weird how that happens sometimes. I mean, logically speaking, one day cannot be longer or shorter than another (and I'm talking about the day as a 24-hour period, not in terms of "hours of sunlight") — but it's strange how sometimes time absolutely flies past, while others it drags on and on and on and on.

Sometimes it's just a particular part of the day that drags on and on and on and on. Back at secondary school, my friends and I were absolutely convinced that German lessons lasted at least twice as long as any other lesson, despite being exactly the same length. I didn't even particularly hate German or anything — it just always seemed to drag on.

In fact, so frequently did we feel that German lessons distorted time that I successfully managed to pull off what I thought was quite an entertaining piece of comedy at the time, by setting the countdown timer on my Casio digital watch to the same time that it was right then, making it look like the clock was actually running backwards. I successfully bamboozled my friends with this piece of comedy genius for, ooh, about five minutes or so. (Ten minutes in German Lesson Time, obviously.)

This week it has been dragging on and on and on. As you may have surmised from some other posts, I've been having a bit of a bad week in terms of mental health, and it really sucks. It saps the motivation to do anything, it saps the energy to interact with others like a normal human being and it makes frustrating things infinitely more frustrating than they would otherwise be. And when you feel like this at work rather than at school, you're supposed to act like an adult and just suck it up rather than drawing Edlock Holmes cartoons in your "rough book" and leaving offensive post-it notes stuck to the wall.

Still, it's the weekend now, and I can enjoy it. I'm going to record some videos, and hopefully Andie and I will be going to look at cats to see if we can find a new friend for Meg. Other than that, I will be doing as little as possible, and I intend to make the most of a bit of freedom to do absolutely nothing.