{"id":3828,"date":"2016-10-28T14:20:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T13:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/?p=3828"},"modified":"2016-10-28T14:20:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T13:20:33","slug":"in-which-i-am-cloistered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2016\/10\/28\/in-which-i-am-cloistered\/","title":{"rendered":"In which I am cloistered"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had to do a lot of working from home these past two weeks, as our Athena SWAN<\/a> submission reaches its final denouement. <\/p>\n

(Let’s pause to appreciate the image of “Athena SWAN” as a reassuringly corpulent opera singer with Viking horns, inhaling gustily for one final, glass-ceiling-shattering bellow…)<\/p>\n

I love working from home. For starters, there’s the dining room table, which I can plaster with papers, scribbles and tea mugs without ever running out of space, being about ten times the surface area of my cramped office desk. <\/p>\n

Then there’s the conservatory with its tropical plants and trickling water feature, which gets sun-warmed even on these late autumn afternoons. It’s an excellent place to pace for a few minutes to restore circulation to limbs tense from keyboard work.<\/p>\n

There’s my back garden, too, a turn around which which never fails to refresh me. If it’s sunny, I’ll hang the laundry out, which gives me a satisfying feeling of multi-tasking: keeping the mucky boy in clean smalls while staving off deep-vein thrombosis. Bonus points for grazing on grapes and apples as I pass up and down the paths.<\/p>\n

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\nWelcome break<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

And of course, there’s the hot-air popcorn maker, which needs no justification.<\/p>\n

Mostly I just enjoy the ability to get stuff done without constant interruption. I love academic life, but it isn’t half full of collegial distraction. Which is, of course, most of the fun of being an academic in the first place.<\/p>\n

I do look back to my work life getting back to ‘normal’ – whatever that means. In the meantime, it’s time for another cup of tea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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