Onesome: Off-- to do something productive? What are your spare time hobbies? ...or do you have a life < g >?
Heh. What life? In my spare time this month, I'm doing Nanowrimo. This year, I'm writing a supernatural murder mystery set in a quasi-late-18th century France. But, of course, no one cares about that. Right now, I'm behind on my word count because some other stuff comes first.
Twosome: to see-- beyond the horizon? Where would you like to take your hypothetical 'unlimited' vacation?
Everywhere. If I had such a vacation, I wouldn't want to stick to just one place.
Threesome: the Wizard-- There's always (or should be) a fix-it wizard around the place; do you have one you can call on to take care of those minor repairs that crop up? ...or are you "it"?
Er...what fix-it wizard? I don't think there is one.
Yesterday I had the same experience as yours from the library, but in my office. Three graduate students were in a nearby office. There were no other faculty around, and they spent hours chatting. Two of the students have "inside voices," but the other talks a lot any time she is around, and her voice is loud, valley girlish and know-it-all sounding. It has an impact on me that reminds me of a story I heard a few years ago, that there was a woman who was made insane and physically ill by Mary Hart's voice (from Entertainment Tonight on TV). And these three are not all that young (one is, but the loudmouth is 30-something and the other looks 40-something), nor were they talking about classes or research - they (mostly she, ie, my Mary Hart) were yammering about pre-graduate school jobs, regional dialects in the US, and some party they are throwing. AAAHHH! Working at home is highly underrated!
