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Weekends: Shame, Debt, Guilt And Blogging

Choire · 02/18/07 04:55PM

Saturday and Sunday are supposed to be the two days of the week when we're free to be ourselves. No work means the days are wide open—the tie goes on the rack, the first meal of the day comes with alcohol. We yawn happily, like baby birds in anticipation of that sweet, healing leisure we read about in the paper. This is not what really happens.