Friday Evening Me Time

Travel is entertaining but raises awareness to the plight that Friday evenings are a prime time to feel an affinity for something to do and people to be around, occurring most reliably when you momentarily have neither. This phenomenon occurred in college as well and after some deliberation, I partially attribute this to the adrenaline drop after a long week. It's limbo, the lag of expectations catching up to reality... not denying there’s also something there about knowing other people are out who will always stay out later than you.

I do love unwinding when I settle in, so there is only a key period to overcome while making the transition from people mode to me-time. Staying entertained helps. Of course, there's also this secondary issue of whether I ever want to leave chill-out-mode once I'm there, even to sleep or to rejoin productive society when it calls. I say this facetiously because the long-run optimization is yes I should, but sometimes, you have moments where you wonder, isn’t it rational to think on the margin?

Alas, that's all a bit of sophistry, so back to work it is.