Because we've got Friday it means we can approach the weekend differently.
As we approach the weekend, I'm keen to gather events details for another Friday round-up.
Some Muslim leaders had approached the weekend with caution, but many of the so-called Global Rally for Humanity events that had been promoted on social media appeared not to materialise or to be attended by no more than a handful of protesters.
In the same way as newspapers have a different mood about them on Saturdays and Sundays, and Sunday night television means something very different from Saturday evening viewing, radio approaches the weekend days in suitably diverse fashion, especially in the mornings.
I approached the weekend optimistically, armed with a top-notch navigator – my wife, Juliana, who usually serves as navigator on our frequent long road trips – and a snow tire-shod, four-wheel-drive 1987 Subaru GL wagon.
We observe a steady increase in the odds of 30-day death per day of the week as we approach the weekend for elective patients in the 11 English and 5 US hospitals.
IF LEHMAN HAD BEEN SAVED | With the five-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers approaching this weekend, "the most intriguing hypothetical question about those fateful days is what would have happened had the government bailed out Lehman," Andrew Ross Sorkin writes in the DealBook column.
Each weekend, million of dollars are spent, scripts written and rewritten, assistants fired and espressos downed in order to make sure that the average moviegoer, approaching the multiplex at the weekend, can count him or herself spoilt for choice.
Already she can feel the weekend approaching, the texts they'll send each other all day, hungover in bed.
