Confused Monday

So... I should be working right now, but I'm so not ready to be part of the office this morning.

Mondays are strange now. We do all of our work in week-long iterations. Each iteration starts on Thursday and ends on Wednesday. At the end of Wednesday when the iteration is over, the sense of completion makes me feel like the week should be over too. But it's not. We still have two days to go. And Thursday is always a bear because we spend most of it in planning meetings. By Friday, I'm completely drained.

Then Monday comes around. I'm still drained. I look at our iteration board, where all of our tasks are posted, and I realize we still have a ton of work to do, with only three days in which to do it. It feels like a mad rush to get everything done in time.

But here's where it's really strange. We've picked Monday as our "research day". The whole department takes half a working day to focus on research. It can be done together or individually. Most people opt for individual time, since we don't otherwise get that anymore.

So it's the start of a new week, yet we're in the middle of an iteration. We have all this work to be do before the iteration ends on the day after tomorrow, and there's enormous pressure on us to make it happen... yet... we pause for research time.

It's weird.

I'm not saying it's bad. It's just completely different than what we're used to. My work schedule feels... off. I'm having trouble adapting.

Monday is more overwhelming than it used to be. Thursday is no longer my favorite day of the work week because it's filled with very long meetings. Friday is the end of the week, but not the end of the iteration.

I'm sure I'll come around eventually after we've been through a few more iterations. This can't remain weird forever, can it?