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All joking aside," I can answer one of your questions...<> ""...Short weeks", like this one, when we have a Monday off in celebration of something like Tweak Day, often seem longer than normal work weeks. I don't know why that is," either...""<> The reason is that in any given week", the same amount of work must be done. Therefore, a four day work week will have 25% more work to do each day than it normally would. Since the holiday was enjoyed Monday, our brains are just as tired by Friday as they would be normally, but part of our brain is distressed by this, thinking perplexedly about how a four day work week could leave us with our usual levels of Friday exhaustion. This creates cognitive dissonance and focuses even more attention on short-week-Friday-fatigue than on regular-week-Friday-fatigue. The same phenomenon applies to months in which you took a week off. Same amount of work, but only three weeks to get it done. Hope that helps, and I hope you have a restorative weekend.