Well, just so you all know, Manhattan did not blow up. The gas leak was caused by the toxic swamps in New Jersey releasing whatever builds up in their polluted wastelands. So that's what happened.
But now I'm finding I don't need a mere threat of toxic gas floating over Manhattan to keep me from showing up to work. Nay. All I need is to sleep later and later and keep "working from home".
Gradually, others have caught onto this. Today I received an Instant Msg from my boss at 9:15 am (this is how we keep track of one another...instant messages). Of course I wasn't up at 9:15. I was slumbering away until 10:15. When I finally got up and answered her IM, I was a bit scared I'd been found out, but all she wanted was to tell me she wasn't coming into work. So, it seems I've set a precedent. I IM'd another co-worker, out of guilt really since it has been a week since I've shown up to work, and she even encouraged me not to come in. Apparently all the bosses were "out sick", "working from home" or just taking the day off for no apparent reason.
But I figured I might as well see what the environs of my office looked like again, so I caught a train and drifted in around noon. Still pretty much the same. Then I had to talk to someone for an hour on the phone for a personal call, after which I went and fetched some lunch. Now it's 2:35 and I have to leave by 4:30 to make a doctor's appt I have.
I suppose I really should get started on this documentation they assigned me. A month ago. Might be a good idea to finish it before leaving Friday for a week's visit to the west coast. After which I move back to Massachusetts and into the new apartment I just found last week.
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