"Puppet wrangler? There weren't any puppets in this movie!" – Crow T. Robot
It was a long and slow day, but I’m off this coming Monday (albeit for a pair of doctor’s appointments) and working from home on Tuesday. So that’s nice.
No real plans for the weekend beyond maybe my weekly writing group, a movie, some Kaleidotrope submissions. That kind of thing.
Today was cold and rainy, except when it was warm and sunny — which, during my lunch hour, was at the same time as it was cold and rainy. The day didn’t make a whole lot of sense, but isn’t that often the way with Thursdays?
My new boss took us out to lunch today, just the four development editors in the New York office, a little get-to-know-each-other (or me) meal. It was nice. I like that, in all the big changes lately, I don’t dislike the people I’m working with. That’s always a plus.
Working from home is kind of a weird experience. Sleeping in a little in the morning and not having to face the commute is nice, as is puttering around in a T-shirt and jeans. (Which I guess I can do at the office, but only on Fridays.) But there’s less structure to the day, and you have to keep imposing a schedule on yourself. You have to have specific tasks and work on those at specific times.
Which is tough when those tasks aren’t cooperating, and some of what you (meaning I) hoped to do today just could not be done. But all in all, I think I like this work-from-home business. It’s a little weird that it’s on Tuesday, and I think it will still take some getting used to, but it’s a nice little feature of the new position.
That said, I didn’t do any reading. I took care of a couple of personal matters — like filing my taxes. Yeah, finally — over my lunch break, and the time I usually spent reading on the train…well, I didn’t have to take the train at all today. I probably could do with some structure in my life.
Just an average Monday. Nothing, really, to see here.
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t looking forward to being able to work from home tomorrow. I don’t have an awful commute, but not having it at all should be nice.