What is sobering though, is how fast a 40-hour workweek gets chipped away by things other than planned work!
The elegant revelers at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Sunday night were not fazed by the fact that Youssou N'Dour and his band, Super Etoile, took the stage at 10 30, despite the workweek looming only hours away.
I'm just staying away from the workweek rush hour.
For those not yet ready for a dramatic change, there's still scope for chipping away at the workweek.
"After Bird Cloud was finished and I was living in the house I found that the Euro-American division of time into five-day workweeks and two-day weekends crumbled away.
And though Ms. Wade laughingly denied any smooches with handsome building-mates who, perhaps, keep boxer-briefs in the refrigerator, she admitted that with the family away, even a full-time workweek can feel like a vacation.
With their announcement of a new festival taking place on a Game of Thrones set in Morocco, French concert promoters Panda Events are taking the idea of a music festival fantasy space to another level.Not only are you promised a weekend escape away from your depressingly familiar workweek lifestyle, but you even get to live inside one of your favorite TV shows for a few days, too.
But the image of floating across a lake on a gentle afternoon, far away from the frenzy of my workweek in a television newsroom, became one of those silent obsessions that can gather a life of its own.
If anything, I think that the stress might be more from the cumulative exhaustion of pounding away at 80- to 100-hour workweeks for the last few years.
But since the financial crisis took a sharp turn for the worse after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in mid-September, De Beers has had to reduce production by shortening workweeks, introducing more flexible hours and shifting workers away from digging to mine maintenance.
