Monday

[sketchfest]

Is it harder to come back to work on Monday after a great climbing weekend, when you've set goals and achieved them ie; a mountain, trad or sport climb you've been gearing up to climb. Or after a weekend of defeat, where all you can think about is getting back out and giving it another go?

[Dru]

harder to come back after failing i'd say, in fact after a hard day of climbing saturday i dont even feel too bad about taking sunday off to and lie in the sun and read the paper and hang out in MEC.

[AA]

a weekend of defeat; b/c all you think about is what you would do differently to accomplish the climb/goal.... speaking from experience of this weekend!!.... god-damn logging roads....

[sketchfest]

I think for me it's harder to come back after a succesful weekend because I feel like I want to keep pushing my limits. While after getting my ass kicked, it usually takes me a few days to start mulling over all the reasons for my failure.

[forrest_m]

i think it's worst to come back to work on monday without having gotten out at all but instead wasted a gorgeous weekend straightening out a plumbing emergency in your house. not that anything like this would ever happen to me.

[Dr_Flash_Amazing]

quote:

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Originally posted by glen:

What if work is fun?

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Definition 2 seems to apply.

[sketchfest]

glen, don't know what you do for a living, but I enjoy my job for the most part, I would still rather not be here anyday of the week, not just Monday.

[glen]

Reminds me of the Princess Bride: "Inconceivable!"

 

Back to the office after a weekend in the moutains is hard, for sure. On the other hand, I spend about 2 months a year outside in kick-ass places for what I do, and still think about rocks even on my days off. I think the sunlight helps counteract the fluorescent hell-lamps.

 

4 days till I head to California to do more 'work'.

[payaso]

It's not as hard as if you don't go out, and wish you had. You'll wish you had that weekend back again some gloomy time in February or so.

[icegirl]

Sometimes after a long weekend of long approaches and long hard climbs I find myself relieved to be back at work, not because I did not have a fantastic time, but need some recovery time (mental and physical) to get ready to do it again.

 

[ 08-19-2002, 01:39 PM: Message edited by: icegirl ]

[chucK]

A past climbing partner of mine used to say, "Some people use their weekends to rest up from their job. Some people use their jobs to rest up from their weekends. I am one of the latter."

[mattp]

For me, its much harder to actually get any work done when I had a long day on Sunday, successful or not -- and particularly hard when the day was exciting in some way or another.

 

When I first went into business for myself, a friend of mine advised: if you want to contact anybody for any genuine business purpose, don't call them on Monday morning or Friday afternoon -- on Fiday afternoon they are either rushing to finish something up and don't want to talk or they are mentally already out of the office, and on Monday morning they are likely not yet to be ready for business and either spacing out or mopping up some desparate situation they aren't yet ready to handle. So my question is, what about Friday afternoons -- harder or easier when you are planning a big outing?

[erik]

i think wheter it be monday or wensday or thursday or whatever day...i have a hard time coming into work.......then again i am always here...wtf???

 

so much so that i am currently in my 2nd hour of work today.....

 

and wheter it be a successful or not so succesful weekend, i still enjoyed every minute of it, and in some perverse what i enjoy what i get out of work too....i just dont want to be there to get it!!!

[Dr_Flash_Amazing]

quote:

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Originally posted by mattp:

So my question is, what about Friday afternoons -- harder or easier when you are planning a big outing?

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Friday afternoons are miserable hell before a trip or the weekend when you're ready to send something. The Doctor finds it difficult to actually do much on those Fridays. Of course, the lure of the weekend alone is usually enough to cut the paying-attention moorings loose. Damn that blasted office all to hell!

[iain]

quote:

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Originally posted by mattp:

So my question is, what about Friday afternoons -- harder or easier when you are planning a big outing?

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Harder. I start thinking (esp. on those early season climbs) hours from now I'm going to be hanging out on some steep shit miles from anywhere, freezing cold, scared at times, and who knows what else, and by choice! Makes it difficult to concentrate on Fri afternoon.

[sk]

personaly, I think it's hard either way. if I fail, I want to get right back out there, and work it out, correct my mistakes, try again, and if I am successful I probably wasn't ready to leave anyway. I have the vacation blues, BAD!!!!!!

[Dru]

nobody expects you to actually do work on monday just show up and sit by computer drinking coffee and bsing with co workers.

[iain]

weekend of defeat if weathered off a mountain, only to have it crystal clear on Monday!

[sketchfest]

Good one Iain, that's probably the worst, bad weather only to wake up to bluebird skies the day you gotta head to the office.

[Dr_Flash_Amazing]

Definitely the worst post-shutdown. But then again, isn't there always something new to flail/fail on after those successful weekends?

 

Work always sucks shit to return to after any kind of climbing, or any other outdoor- or beer-related activity, for that matter.

[glen]

What if work is fun?