Should Friday Be Abolished?

We hear a chorus of 'a thousand times no' or words to that effect, but anyway, there's a genuine case to be made I believe.

The Puumaja isn't just making this assertion because we work from home, and so Friday doesn't have the resonance that it once did. There's something irksome about the wastefulness of it, in our view. From the air of anticipation first thing on a Friday morning, possibly even starting on Thursday evening, to the mandatory, hysterical "let's get to the pub at 5pm and stay there all evening", at least in the UK, and amongst emigre brits wherever they may be found, thus wiping out much of Saturday as well, to the 'novelty' of 'dress down Friday' to the general attitude of " let's just not do anything", which can be found all over the world I expect, Friday is really a huge vortex placed towards the end of the week (but not quite) which simply sucks all productivity from the remaining days into it and spits it out somewhere in the middle of the dark ages.

We think the muslims have got it right in simply making Friday a holy day in which you should just spend all day hanging round at the mosque, doing nothing concrete, since that's what everyone does anyway (bar the praying).

The fact remains, Friday promises so much and yet can never deliver. Even if you steer clear of a hangover (in which case you didn't drink enough and the night out turned out to be a bit flat) we don't believe that anyone can honestly look back and say "yes, all that was worthwhile" when all they did was that four hours trip to the country in the pouring rain at the end of which they just crashed out and fell asleep, or settled down with a lukewarm and overpriced takeaway curry for that that 25 minute long comedy slot which just ain't as funny as it used to be. In any case it's only two days away from Sunday, so you might as well start looking backwards to that, as much as start looking forward to Friday some time around Wednesday lunchtime.

So what to do with it, there are after all seven days in the week. The etymology of the name may give us an idea. We understand it refers to an ancient nordic goddess called, amongst other things, Frigg, presumably hence all the frigging around that goes on on the day, who had some kind of fertility cult associated with her. So that's what we should be doing really. It's the day of procreating! Who can oppose that? And procreating is of course, well, productive, so it would be in keeping with the idea that productivity levels should in fact be through the roof on the fifth day.

In any event the Puumaja is aiming to have one hell of a productive day tomorrow, starting early, and getting things done and, even if there's no procreating as such the attitude change should be for the best.