Daydream Vaccination: Meditations on Casual Friday Part I

By Friday, the nine-to-five office worker becomes critically susceptable to the affects of daydreaming. His mind, like that of the marathon runner approaching the finish line, becomes inextricably drawn to fantasies of what fabulous rewards await him on the other side of five o'clock. And just as the runner is offered small, objective manifestations of his fantasy(i.e., paper cups of water and manic cheering) that spur him on in the last leg of the race, the office worker is offered the permission to wear jeans and a sweater on Casual Friday. It seems that tangible objects, like jeans and sun visors, that are associated with weekend respite and thus the stuff of daydreams are acting as a bulwark against the ravages of daydreaming and utter non-productivity.