Most of us - me included! - would do better to read everyoneĮlse's tweets and blog posts as generously as possible.įirst, a relatively small-scale dread. I do stand by the first bullet as a general observation. To post them here, where everyone who reads them has chosen to visit my blog, rather in a Twitter thread filled with folks I realize that some of these replies in absentia are effectively subtweets at a distance. Is fall, when students return to the university, and spring, when the sun returns to the world. To work on campus, when the pace is relaxed and most of the students who are on campus are doing research. COVID also did not break me for appreciating a quiet and relatively empty campus.(And I don't even have a long or onerousĬommute to campus!) Now, I try to work from home one day a week when schedules allow. But I came first toĪppreciate and then to enjoy it, for many of the same reasons others enjoy it.

As a result, doing so felt strange when the pandemic hit us all so quickly. Before the pandemic, I almost never worked at home during the

COVID did not break me for working from home.

No, I will not send you a Google Calendar invite.

Say - is, 'That's not the question I would have asked.'

When people say, 'That's the wrong question to ask', what they often seem to mean - and should almost always.

Here are a few Twitter replies that no one asked for and that I chose not to send at the time. Maybe I should jump inĪnyway? Even after more than a decade, I'm not sure I know how to Twitter properly. By then, many of the threads I see have played themselves out. One reason is that my daily schedule has been so different for the last six orĮight weeksr: I've been going for bike rides with my wife at the end of the work day, which means I'm most likely to be I've been pretty quiet on Twitter lately.

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