Here we go

[pbray]

Well the snow has started here. Predictions are for about a foot of snow overnight, then really nasty stuff tomorrow--storm totals in the two to three foot range with 40mph wind gusts tomorrow. Depending on the type of snow, the high wind will make shoveling an exercise in futility as whatever you clear off will get filled right back in.

I've stocked up with the key supplies (tuna, nutrigrain bars, salami, cheese, chocolate, milk, water and wine).

Also brought laptop home so I can work from here tomorrow. Whatever happened to the old-fashioned snow day? Back when I started in Corporate America (roughly the Jurassic era), if it wasn't a state of emergency you showed up at the office, on time. If the roads were closed due to a state of emergency you stayed home and somehow the corporation survived. Nowadays as long as DSL is up and the phone lines are working, I'm expected to work.

I hate working from home--my home office is my writing room. When I sit at the desk, I'm in the writing headspace. I don't want to be thinking about the day job while I'm in this place. But since this room is where the DSL connection is, I can cope with it, for the occasional snow day. But I reserve the right to be grumpy.

Comments

[spcpthook.livejournal.com]

hmm...so maybe living so far out in the sticks DSL hasn't reached me isn't all bad. I already told them I won't be working tomorrow.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Good for you!

[jtglover.livejournal.com]

I have similar problems in my home work space. When I'm doing day-work from home, story ideas creep in, or little bits of dialogue that absolutely must be written down...

Do you talk about your writing at all at work? Do people ask? Just curious.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Most people who've worked with me for a while know that I'm a writer. Many of the people I work with are at other locations, but for anyone who is local I always have my latest book cover posted on the door to my office. People who move into the building will sometimes walk by it for a while and then weeks later go "I know this sounds stupid, but do you know the person that wrote that book? Is she a relative?"

Some of my managers have been supportive, others were indifferent. Reactions changed when I moved from historical romance to fantasy novels--male coworkers who'd dismissed the romance career now wanted to know when one of my books was going to be made into a movie like "Lord of the Rings."

[jtglover.livejournal.com]

Ha! Always interesting how people's reactions change when they learn a thing -- and I'd imagine both irritating and amusing.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I hate working from home--my home office is my writing room. When I sit at the desk, I'm in the writing headspace. I don't want to be thinking about the day job while I'm in this place.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

I always feel like I should perform a ritual cleansing after one of these work at home days :-)