Posts by Judi Lapsley Miller
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Danielle said:
I am sitting in a dingy, windowless cubicle with coffee in a travel mug after commuting for an hour. I hope you work-from-homers take this in the fond and tender spirit in which it is intended:
I hate you all. :)
Can I rub salt in to the wound? Can I? Can I?
I'm lying here on the sofa, in the sun, with a fresh cup of coffee lovingly made by my loving husband, earning USD (which are finally worth something again!). I might go for a potter in the garden later... if I can get off the sofa... but it all seems like such an effort.
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3) Remember to eat. Don't know about anyone else, but I find it far to easy to get caught up in a project and end up wondering why 1) it's hard to see (because it's night, doofus) and 2) I've also got one mutha-frakker of a headache (because you're hungry and dehydrated).
We're the opposite - there are track marks through the carpet (and probably a trail of crumbs) from the sofa to the kitchen and back. In our defense, working from home means there is more time to make nutritious meals, homemade bread, etc.
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I do wonder sometimes...
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Maybe we need to do a "people who work at home" session at foo-camp (we can either commiserate and get drunk together or swap working tips).
Oooh - count me in!
I've done it for about half of the past 20 years - so far I have 2 rules:
* you must get dressed by lunch time, no hanging around in your bath robe
* you must leave the house and interact with actual people at least every other dayHmmm... might need to add
* must not take teleconferences in bed.
* must remember to speak to husband sitting only 2 m away rather than using IM.
* must do at least 30 mins work for every 5 mins reading PAAnd on that note...
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It's called smingeing, and it's every bit as nasty as it sounds when you say it.
Looks like Russell is just trying to get in early for "Word of the Year" for 2009...
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Judi you're the apple that has fallen on newton's head.
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You've made my morning!
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Yes. Unfortunately, it's not so great for collaboration. Ironically the guy in the office next door is a command line/linux/latex type of guy, but we don't write stuff together.
What I really miss is Bibtex. Endnote really blows. Or at least it is bloated and cumbersome, and really crap at APA. I guess it's OK as a reference manager, and I like being able to click through to web of science of the pdf file, but I really miss the in-text referencing, and latex's innate sense of style and proportion.I know your pain...
Maybe we should start a support group for frustrated LaTeX users....
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David said
But I think the next step up is a banjolele -- an instrument considered so loathsome that P.G. Wodehouse based an entire novel on their awfulness.
OMG! We had one of these for a while - picked up for a quarter at a yard sale. I liked the shape of the case and for a quarter, though it would make a fun decoration - was really surprised when I opened it to find a musical instrument inside! But less surprised when I found out what it was - and I wondered why they didn't pay us to take it away. Fortunately the skin was split so it wasn't possible to hear it in its full glory.
And unfortunately for you, it didn't make the trip back from the US with us - otherwise you could have had it with our full blessings!
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David wrote
I didn't know it then, but by Standard 4, the happiest of my school-days were behind me. From this point onward, things would begin to seriously deteriorate.
And yet you stayed in school all the way - right up to a PhD! If you ever work out why, let me know - the insight may help me save on my therapy bills ;-)
Judi