"No hope, no harm..."

"...just another false alarm."

It's been a bad week.
Don't get me wrong, there have been highlights - including a nice evening with a certain muppet and seeing The Cabin In The Woods (more gory than I was anticipating but thoroughly enjoyable) - but altogether I am very happy to be seeing the back of it.

I've been thinking over the past 5 days and the tally's pretty even until we get to Thursday. Thursday was dire. Thursday was fighting dirty. Generally I'm quite good at remaining upbeat, but on Thursday I almost cried at work. That's pretty big for me; I think the only time I actually cried was when I crashed my car on the journey in (about a year ago). As I see it, the tally stands at

Philly 1 : World 4

So tonight, world, I avoid you. Alone I shall sit, eating popcorn and watching Game of Thrones through my still-bruised post-surgery eyes.

Cheers.

P.s. No, there's no point to this post, just self indulgence. Deal with it.


*Quote from The Smiths

"Being busy does not always mean real work...."

"...The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing."

Today I am working from home. When I say that I do this roughly one day every week people generally retort: "Working(!)" their hands quick to support with inverted commas. They also tend to tilt their head and look at me sideways as if this will somehow change what I'm saying. But it won't. Because believe it or not, I spend these days actually working. Pretty much exactly as I would if I were sitting in the office, the main difference being that I wouldn't show up to the Civic in my Ninja Turtle pyjama bottoms. Probably.

Perhaps I am in the minority here but if I am given a task, I'm dead set on doing it properly. Go hard or go home. Except that I am at home... Some days are slower than others, I'm well aware, but the work has to get done no matter where my tea-making facilities are. I'm not rushed-off-my-feet-busy all the time, in the office or out of it, but that doesn't mean I don't get the job done. I mean, shouldn't we base how well you work on the quality and quantity of output, rather than hours inputted?

I like being useful; I like being busy. So, to all the head-tilters and comma-inverters out there, please don't mistake my flexible working habits as a flexible working ethic. You may prefer me to 'seem to work' but I prefer to actually work. Go hard or go home and stay home.

*Quote from Thomas Edison

"There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world."

...so I hope you enjoy my oddities.

Salutations dear reader, I don't know how we got here, but here we are. Another afternoon of procrastination and BLAMMO another blog littering your interwebs.

Lucky you.

*Quote from Douglas Adams