Working from home is working out pretty well, all told.
It’s funny though; I’ve actually been up to campus almost every day anyway, for meetings, or packing up the stuff from our offices, or gathering files and equipment.
I went in last Friday and collected my office chair and an orange crate that contains most of my job files, because as it turns out, we’re probably not going to get our new carpet until April 7. Or possibly later than that. And after the carpet is laid, they have to put our furniture back (it will be really amusing to take stock of where everything ends up, I think). So I’m planning on being at home for another 2-1/2 to 3 weeks. Which is why I went and got my chair (much more comfortable) and my files (guess I’ll need them here after all).
My torn/not torn/whatever rotator cuff injury has been pretty inconsistent lately. Today it’s felt fine, I barely notice the pain. Friday, however, I was in such constant pain that it made me Severely Grumpy all afternoon and I finally had to “quit” “work” at 4:00 and go lie down on the heating pad.
I’ve made several empirical observations over the past week or so:
- Doc is really quiet when he works
- Loki sleeps in the bedroom all day
- Neko snuffles me a lot
- I can concentrate a lot better here at home than I can at work
- I miss the comraderie of socializing with my officemates (most of them, anyway!)
- Being without my office phone hasn’t bothered me one bit
- Even though there’s a TV on the table next to my desk, I haven’t turned it on at all
- The line between when “work” stops and “off work” begins is kind of fuzzy when “work” and “off work” take place at the same location. I’ve found myself working until well after 6 without even realizing it.
I’ve also been able to witness several insanely cute cat interactions, best represented by the following photo:
I’m thinking that’s a great photo for a caption contest. My entry:
“Catnip gives me the munchies and your ass tastes like Fancy Feast to me!”
Ok.. um, how’bout:
“Damn cryogenically frozen cat. Looks just like real cat. Um, would someone help me get my tongue un-stuck?”
-Kat
dang, i can’t think of anything to top those two entries!! neko was in some weird kind of half asleep trance as she was licking loki, and so thte only thing i can think that she was actually thinking was “meh…. slurp…. meh… meh…. meh… slurp….”