Working from home...

For work I am currently writing a grant, essentially an application for money from the government. This grant is a short grant, 6 pages of science, now keep in mind it isn't 6 regular pages: 12 point font, regular margins, and double spaced. Nope this is 6 pages of 1/2 inch margins, 11 point font, and single spaced. This is like writing about 10-15 pages of regular text, I have to keep this in mind when at the end of the day I only have 1/2 a page written. My grant is starting to come together, I am pretty close to getting everything done and it looks like I am going to actually make the deadline of July 25 (it is going to be super close though).

Since I live 45 minutes from my office my boss said that I can work from home... this is both glorious and horrible. I love that I am wearing my gym shorts and a T-shirt and getting a chance to hang out with the dog today. I hate that I want to do lots of things instead of working on this grant. I have no quite figured out how to master this from home stuff. I worked from home one day last week and I was pretty productive I just sat in the dining room and worked for a while. I think that is where I am going to end up today, at the moment I am on the couch (this doesn't work, not even a little). I cleaned the house this weekend so I am not trying to do that at the moment but I do have my laundry going and there are a few odds and ends that it will be nice to get around to today.

At the moment I am not sure that I could ever work from home on a permanent basis because I think I like to go to an office and get things done. I really enjoy feeling like I was productive and I just don't think that sitting around the house working is ever going to feel like work it mostly just feels like a party... I am sure I could get used to this but it just takes so much more self-discipline and I don't think I have enough for this. Sometimes I can get around this by working in a place with a witness, starbucks or a library where someone can see that I am just playing on the internet not working.

Well I guess I should get back to folding my laundry, playing with the dog, organizing my makeup, and I guess writing my grant... hahaha this has got to be productive... I need this to work today.

I really love my job today...