The Thursday Doldrums

Is your Thursday getting you down? Are you counting down the hours until the weekend? Is the thought of working another day this week so exhausting that you just want to curl up in bed and sleep until Saturday? Well if so, I have a few suggestions listed below that should help you get through the rest of your work week without going postal.

• Start an office rumor that will keep you entertained until Friday afternoon. For example: “You heard about Stacy from accounting, right? With John from HR? On the photocopier... With the two staplers and the toner cartridge?”
  
  
• It's not exactly appropriate to drink at the office. But that's no reason not to break out the blender and make some virgin daiquiris. You'd be amazed how much a couple of strawberry daiquiris will brighten your day. Plus, the sound of the running blender should help drown out the annoying chatter of your cubicle-mate.
  
  
• Grab you cellphone and head to the elevator. Then, once everyone else has gotten off the elevator, hit the STOP button and “get stuck” in the elevator. While the work crews work to get you out of there, you can enjoy some quiet time playing solitaire on your cellphone and texting your friends.
  
  
• Order one of those giant submarine sandwiches and having it delivered to the conference room. Let's be honest here – once a huge sandwich like that arrives at your office, an impromptu office party will inevitably start and work will end for the rest of the day.
  
  
• And if all else fails, start coughing now so that people will believe you when you call in sick tomorrow morning...