Working from home

[kodalai]

News! What's new with me. Well, after last time's jubilant spring report, spring has reverted to being nasty, grey and rainy. Just because we live with it all the time doesn't mean we don't like to complain about it. Besides, it actually rained for ten days straight here, which is really quite unusual! We usually get grey overcast with a sort of light mist, not steady, visible RAIN.

The big news for me is that I have started working from home! It's quite a change. Still getting used to it. Signing off in the afternoon and walking back to my room still feels like cheating, as is going to lunch and being able to walk ten steps to the kitchen to make delicious food. The biggest downside so far is that Chrestomanci thinks that if I am at home, I should be paying attention to him! And if I do not, he bites my phone cord, since he quickly figured out that THAT gets my attention.

Other than that, my main challenge is that I have to make myself get out of the house sometimes. And be more social. There's been some of that so far, going out to dinner twice, to a movie once, and this afternoon after work I am going out to a range to learn how to shoot. This seems like a very useful skill to learn if I am going to be a writer. Writers need all sorts of experiences! Next up: bellydancing. (Not really.)

Comments

[nekojita.livejournal.com]

Yes, Hoshi loves my wfh day(s) as she thinks that means she can plop down on my lap/keyboard and demand attention throughout the day. Works usually during the long, boring meetings, not so much when I actually have to do some typing. Though it is a little embarrassing when I'm sitting in a meeting the next day and plucking cat hair out of the keyboard...

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

Ohh, yes, the hair in the keyboard -- I had to buy a can of compressed air just to keep the laptop functional with all the ambient hair around! (Doesn't help that the roommate's lovey-lovey cat is a longhair.)

[beccaabbott.livejournal.com]

Down here in sunny Portland we've had 28 out of 31 days with measurable precipitation. Bah, I say. Bah!

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

That doesn't surprise me in the slightest! It's probably something similar for us -- I haven't been tracking it that closely, but I'm sure someone has.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Goodness! This will be a good alternative in future bad weather (assuming you stick around that long). Or is it a permanent shift?

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's permanent -- at least for the forseeable future, unless I fuck it up (which there's no reason to think I will.) Also they kinda said that there's no room for me to come back on site, so if I can't work virtually, then I uhh won't be working at all, but there seems to reason to worry too much :p

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

I'm green... I'd LOVE to work from home! Congrats, man. :D

[foxglove6.livejournal.com]

Jealous of working from home. congrats, for serious. It's always difficult to switch your schedule, even if it's to something desirable. you'll get the kinks worked out. :-)