You are surely referring to the charmingly tone-deaf (as in charming-my-head-into-my-desk-repeatedly) GOOP. Well, it's OK, [[http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2009-01-06-paltrow-goop_N.htm|Gwyneth feels?

I'd like to stress the "go out sometimes" point. Even if you consider yourself to be not naturally sociable, you'll be amazed by how nutty you can get after being alone for too long.?

Abba-solutely. People sometimes ask me how I avoid slacking off. The reverse is?

Simple rules:
1) get dressed before noon – no you can't stay in that smelly bathrobe
2) leave home every day, if only?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co_DNpTMKXk

You are surely referring to the charmingly tone-deaf (as in charming-my-head-into-my-desk-repeatedly) GOOP.

That's the one. Where were you last night, hmm?

Hint: not my favourite flower shop in London.

I did it originally to spend time with my toddlers – I skewed my day around their schedule, went?

Did he get it done, though?

Yep, and got an A for it. He also changed things up by writing a thirty-five page review article when he got bored of the thesis. (So, okay, there's our family work-from-home secret: have a really freakish work ethic. And a cat.)

I live with flatmates who are seldom there, and my computer is in my room, so I'm seldom distracted by anything that isn't food or already on?

Oh that's perfect.

Prove it.

I'm struggling to work out how different this is, apart from?

I hit the computer almost immediately I get up, work (with the usual commenting and tweeting distractions) through till noon or 1pm, then head out for a ride or to the supermarket or?

I?ve worked from home for 27 years ? because I live in a remote area (with excellent broadband for the past 9 years), most of my tips for staying sane wont apply to most people but the?

Both are very rarely switched off. It's not good for them, you know?

+1

A significant part of my work day is actually email-based, so I need to be?

Also, I just realized another salient fact about my abortive attempts to study at home?

fresh air even if life is giving you the shittiest day in the weather world, get outside even if you only walk round the house a?

For a while I had a flatmate who also worked from home. We were at opposite ends of the house, but we'd meet from time to time in the kitchen getting food and drinks for ourselves, and have a quick?

I used to really hate calling clients who hadn't paid their accounts on time and I would put off calling them, or not do it at all. Then one day?

Also helps to not worry too much about the staying sane thing, it is a thesis you are expected to lose touch with the real world.

And it's a bit of a crap-shoot as to whether you'll get ones whose body clocks suit your preferred work schedule or not.

Yes, I'd be amazed if it continues like this into their teen years.

I don't know, kids seem like a pretty expensive alternative to an alarm clock.?

Unreliable too. My daughter would sleep until 10 every day if possible; my son gets up at 7, but he knows that if he wakes us his unencumbered computer time is over for the day.

It's one of the glories of?

That's kinda how it is being a journalist: you hit deadlines. So long as you do that, and produce quality work,?

But if overestimating just means you meet your deadline, then it wasn't an overestimation, was it?

My old boss used to say "Always underpromise and overdeliver" which is a great strategy as long as you're dealing with people who don't start?

How did you manage to persuade others to accept that though?

Ahem. Some of us wear tracksuit pants. Comfy ones.

Different gigs, though, bro. Journalism deadlines generally involve smaller jobs,?

Totally agree. Some are slower learners than others. One of our my more blazing domestic rows was?

And, if you can, set it up properly. Get that really comfy chair, get a desk with plenty of space, if you have a laptop get a?

Sure we believe you have pants on

Yes, my business partner touted as?

It's that feeling you get when you admit you watch Jersey Shore :P

Yeah, you'd have to pay me to watch Jersey Shore too.

(I do have a semi-serious defence of Jersey Shore, but I imagine it would be rather wasted here. :) )

I have such a weird job. Ducking between Twitter, here and other forums is actually part of the description. At the least, it fills in the time between my short, intense spells of creative?

Oh, it depends on what you consider a waste. If you'd be happy to start an off-topic dissection of Snooki's love-life as an example of the uphill struggle of modern feminism?

I?m slowly getting better at turning off but at times it really is a hard-fought battle.

Yeah 'cos Emma had such high hopes that this would be a serious discussion thread with deep meaningful emotionally complex insights into the universe with inhabit.

We haven't even started talking about dicks yet!

Seeing as half the wankers in the world have their dicks involved in the process I think we kind of have.

Personally, when I was last working from home, it looked a lot like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P785j15Tzk

I just borrow Danyl's. Which gives me more time to read improving books.

Huh, I was just wracking my brains to think which blog I read that on. Danyl?s, of course!

ETA: also saves me the bother of ever watching it myself :-)

Wow. Ya see I just thought it was some gimmick reality show that offered sex, naked bodies, violence and stupidity as a way of getting people to look at their TVs and see the advertising.

I didn't?

We haven't even started talking about dicks yet!

I posted a video about masturbation in the sixth post on this thread, man. Keep up.

I have episodes of working from home – I mostly work in an office, but will occasionally have the odd half-day or couple of hours at?

Yeah Isabel said the same and I have to disagree. Especially on Emma's thread we need to be specific, you can't just obliquely make the reference and expect to get credit. We can't?

But we can have many contributors describing in loving detail why they're sticking to their chosen seats.

At a school event not long ago a friend was giving me a hard time?

+1

Except of course, when deadlines could see the whites of my eyes. THEN I worked. Overnight.

Yeah, ditto.

I like the term "focused distraction" too, that's quite a useful description of how I work when I'm actually fingers on keyboard. Because of course, I'm also "writing" when I'm walking, or?