21-SEP-18 Ready For The Weekend!

[DiveMilw]

Hooray!  My work-week Friday and actual Friday are the same day!!
I have lots of plans to do "not much".  
I do need to get the tires replaced on the car and maybe I'll pick up a short shift at work.  Working a four hour shift feels like having the entire day off.  
What do you have planned?

[KathyB]

I took my car in for an oil change and cabin air filter change, and it turned out to need a coolant flush and a new battery as well. Bleh. The battery probably could have waited another month, but not much more, so I decided just to get it done.

I guess there goes the Lego budget. I do need to do some billing, but that should be for a grand total of $55.

What I have planned for the weekend: Billing. Laundry. Woo hoo!

[scenicdesign71]

Hooray!  My work-week Friday and actual Friday are the same day!!

That was last week for me, sorta.  Although we only work M-F (with very rare exceptions), our show runs on an 8-day production schedule, which means that it's unusual for an episode to actually start on a Monday or end on a Friday.*  It only happens a few times each season, and last week was one: we finished an episode the previous Friday and then came back on Monday to start a new one. 

Day 1 for the next episode will be a Thursday -- and we'll all be back to constantly asking each other "what day is this?" (meaning Day 4, 5, 6...?, but soon enough also "what's today's date?", or simply "is it Friday yet?").^†  I guess it's sort of the episodic-TV version of the way theatre people have trouble with left and right (that corner of our brains getting messed up by stage-left and -right).

And people wonder why entertainment-industry types are so weird.  Well, for starters, our work systematically sabotages our sense of time and space as stable concepts.  I imagine the air-travel industry might be kinda like that too.

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*...and it's nearly unheard-of for a single episode to both start on a Monday and end on a Friday.  With eight days spread over two weeks, there would need to be two days off in there somewhere, holidays or whatever, which is uncommon.  Combine that with the rarity of an episode starting on a Monday in the first place -- even our season premieres have tended to begin shooting midweek -- and you're looking at a real fluke.

^† A couple seasons ago, I actually made us a large whiteboard calendar for the shop, with each day divided into three sections -- prep, shoot, wrap -- to fill in details of the work to be done that day.  Covering two five-day weeks, the calendar also provides spaces for each day to be labeled with both the date (1-31) and the "day number" (1-8).  We still use this calendar, and it's helpful, but apart from the familiar 5-weekday spread familiar to anyone who's ever used an ordinary calendar -- you intuitively know that the center block of each row is Wednesday, for instance -- my coworkers and I often tend to pass over the date and day-number without really registering them; just remembering what day of the week it is (M-F) is sometimes a challenge.

[Gordonb]

I'm officially retired now and in Turkey 🇹🇷 for another 4 weeks, so the days of the week are kind of unimportant as are the times during the day; I haven't worn my watch since we arrived 3 weeks ago ... I like this lifestyle.