I am so frigging much more productive working at home.

For example, I have sent a number of critical emails, both work and personal, arranged the appointment for the puppy's spay (next Monday, poor puppy) and gotten the sheets off the bed to be changed as soon as the mattress cover comes out of the dryer. I also showered and sorted and started a load of laundry. Also on the work front, I read through a number of documents regarding our upcoming accreditation review.

AND I have been blog reading and twitter-ing AND watching baseball.(KC vs DET on ESPN).

AND I only got up 2.5 hours ago.

If I was at work I would have: commuted, made photocopies, and sent some emails.

I love working from home.


Oh, and for the record, you can also keep up with me courtesy of my twitter page.

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1 I notice that too. If I have anything really crucial and concentration-intensive (like going over proofs of an article or grading student research papers), I have to take it home and work on it. I think for me, psychologically, when I'm at work, I have in the back of my mind, "You can be interrupted any moment" (and I often AM) and I can't focus on things as well. At home, I know my phone's unlikely to ring (the students know that it dang well better be an end-of-the-world-is-nigh type emergency before they call me at home) and no one's going to come knocking on my door "just because" I'm in and they're bored. Yes, I can shut my office door at work but that doesn't keep people from calling/e-mailing/knocking on my door. I guess when I take stuff home everyone realizes that I really MEAN "I need not to be interrupted on this" but they don't believe it when I stay in my office...

Posted by: ricki at March 31, 2008 06:01 PM (qrkix)

2 Well, of course *I* highly recommend it. I'm already twitterin' ya, babe. (I know, I don't know the lingo.)

Posted by: Margi at April 02, 2008 09:46 PM (zfeQt)

3 P.S. You're far more organized than I am, but there are approximately 1.25 days like you described in my typical week. The other, leftover days? They're a lot of rushing around and typing frantically to make a deadline. ALL DAY IN MY JAMMIES. Mweheh. (Actualy? I lie. I've taken to wearing scrubs for casual-work attire. Comfy as jammies but not as embarrassing if you have to run to the store. Heh.)

Posted by: Margi at April 02, 2008 09:48 PM (zfeQt)

4 Boy for a day. Speaking of spaying, our neighbors gave us a cat named Ming Ming. A pretty little thing. Hairy too. When the time came, I took her to be spayed. The vet asked "why do you want to spay this cat?" I said "because we get all of our animals fixed" He repeated "but why do you want to get this cat spayed?" I said "because it is time" He smiled and asked "who told you this cat was a girl?" He held up the cat. He said, as he pushed up Ming Ming's two little peas in a pod, "he's a boy. You see, here are his testicles." I thought for a second and then said "o.k., then cut them off." Tiresias has nothing on him. (thank you Genesis - Cinema Show) Should have called this story Three minute eggs.

Posted by: Ant at April 03, 2008 11:08 PM (Rkk7k)

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Crazy doesn't begin to cover it, folks.

And yet I can't think of a better word to describe the last week.

It started out great. I was very productive at work, got through my "pre-Friday" to-do list on Wednesday, if you can believe it, and got my classes back on schedule. No mean feat, I assure you. Wednesday night I went to rehearsal, we went out to dinner and did some shopping, and then we had a quiet evening in front of the TV.

Thursday we awoke to what sounded like a helicopter hovering over the house. And then, as we both got up and began to move about, we noticed that the water pressure in the house seemed very low. But, neither of us needed a shower, and we both had to be out of the house early, so we put it on the mental back burner.

Until I opened the front door to go out to the car. I was greeted by a fountain and a flood.

Some IDIOT thought it would be funny to break our hosepipe off at the top of the dirt. Oh well, they got theirs...a face full of water. HA. MORON. You could see where they were standing... clearly they were in the path of the fountain.

But seriously, what kind of IDIOT doesn't know that there's water in water pipes. No shit.

We called the police, and the officers who came out were highly amused. To say the least. Like us, they figure it was probably a kid. Especially since Hubby had a kid threaten to egg our house earlier in the week. This is being followed up by the PD and at the school.

Friday was a boring day. I can't remember what I did. No kidding.

Saturday we worked all day in the yard, doing a lot of ripping and planting. We had IHOP green eggs and ham and Who Cakes for breakfast. YUMMY!

Sunday I woke up sick. SICK. Like bad tummy sick. If that wasn't bad enough, I had to be at a "work retreat" at 5pm.

I am still moderately queasy. So I am staying home today.

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And here's the perfect treat to celebrate with:

And Happy Birthday, Albert! You would be 129 today!

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1 Hey CTG! What's this?

Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at March 14, 2008 12:48 PM (PvqFn)

2 All gone!!! That was delicious!

Posted by: Amanda at March 14, 2008 08:56 PM (5PUVj)

3 Yep, pie r round..cornbread r square..

Posted by: GUYK at March 15, 2008 07:57 AM (uyoGg)

4 My question to you is answered

Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at March 15, 2008 01:20 PM (Yh9SA)

5 Pi Day-- I never heard of that before--but I will use it again next year! Thanks for the smile!

Posted by: Tony Iovino at March 22, 2008 05:39 AM (HLcQD)

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I finally got around to posting more pictures. Puppy goodness and the saga of installing the dishwasher are now available at Flickr.

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wB turns 31 today! Isn't she lovely?



Welcome to the over the hill gang,my friend!

That box'll get there as soon as it gets over its gout.....

Update: link fixed. Must be my OLD ARTHRITIC FINGERS.

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1 LMAO!!

Posted by: Amanda at March 07, 2008 11:44 AM (ay+rD)

2 Eh? What? Did you say something? rotten kids. GET OFF MY LAWN!

Posted by: wRitErsbLock at March 07, 2008 12:08 PM (+MvHD)

3 Lord. I'm surrounded by children!

Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at March 07, 2008 12:41 PM (PvqFn)

4 BTW, the link is broken. Missing I in ville must be your own aging eyesight!

Posted by: wRitErsbLock at March 07, 2008 01:17 PM (+MvHD)

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I got the following email from Ken S of it comes in pints? this morning, and he told me I could share it with you:

Hi CTG,

We're hoping it's just a temporary issue. Emily's working on it but we're both snowed under with work. Meanwhile, the lovely and talented Mr. Bingley has given us temporary refuge here: http://www.coalitionoftheswilling.net

If things aren't back to normal by tomorrow, the FFOT will be there or a link to wherever it is.

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