Before I knew it, my weekends were no longer my own, but shared with my co-worker.
So while I spent my weekends writing essays with a room full of Poindexters who preferred the thrills of multiple choice test taking to tossing around a sports ball, I maintained a healthy social life, which, to my naive mind, also meant picking up a couple of bad habits.
Calibre 11 is a part-time gig for me, I work in finance during the week and write my posts on weekends.
I'm sorry about the loss of Saturdays, which may make me feel a little more isolated on weekends at my hilltop house.
But on the weekends on my bike, I can be a bad boy, leave the moneymaking system and be free at 90 kilometers an hour.
My long work nights and weekends always ended with a lonely run, a bourbon or two, or a phone call to someone I didn't really listen to.
The constituency has always been my base and I spend four weekends out of five here and most nights per year.
Every once in a while a solo cup makes its way on my bookshelf (especially on the weekends), but I try to remove it (read: untag) immediately.
My dad, brother and I would spend long weekends in marathon games at the kitchen table.
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And if it wasn't stressful enough, I offer you a follow up concern: My friends Emmalee and Kevin are getting married two weekends later.
After agonising whether it was worse to move my children to be with their father more than me, or to risk them being affected by my instability on bad days, I concluded that weekends would work best for us all.
As soon as I felt comfortable enough to chat casually with the attorneys whose correspondence and briefs I typed, I asked them whether I could volunteer to do legal research for them on my lunch hour, after work, or on the weekends.
"I'm not alienating my wife by watching 15 hours of football games on the weekends, " he said.
On weekends I enjoy long hikes in the hills around my house.
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I'd find myself forgetting some weekends to check out the score on a Saturday in my sweat of anticipation for Sunday.
After decades of raising three kids and taking care of other family members, my husband and I have found ourselves in a place we have never been before: one with free weekends.
Nevertheless, technology has created an atmosphere where the lines between work life and personal life are so blurred that many of my colleagues and I are addressing emails, answering phone calls, and otherwise working at night, on the weekends, and while on vacation.
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