Interoffice IM is great for gossiping about co-workers you don't want to talk about out loud. Er, I mean collaborating on projects.

Right on. Kind of like this here, I am all for non-work that looks the same as working! (I.e., sitting at your desk, typing on the computer.)

I can see many a college student taking advantage of this.

Oh, man. Now I want a cookie.

Comic-Con 4-day passes are sold out! That's insane.

I would really like my boss to open his office door so I can talk to him about the project plan and status updates that just landed in my lap. I know he's going to come out of his office at noon and wonder where I am. Making sure I only work 40 hours this week, is where. Gotta leave then because of the one o'clock meeting.

I was wondering why I hadn't heard anything from my boss today--turns out that she's off. Since she usually works from the city office, I don't see her every day, but she usually send an e-mail out telling us that she's taking pto the next day.

I am so full and sleepy from Cheesecake Factory for lunch, but happy about it!

Now my working-from-home problem is that I don't really have to do anything this afternoon, but stuff does have to get done by Monday. So I could blow off the rest of today, but then would be working on the weekend. Hmmmmm.

Jesse, for whatever it is or isn't worth, I'm a firm believer in the weekend as time off unless absolutely necessary.

We have IM, but I, too, keep forgetting to turn it on. Although I generally remember when I'm working from home. I don't do much with it, but it is sort of an "at my desk" signal for the days when my desk is a couch in my living room.

I am generally in that camp, but whenever I've worked from home on a Friday, I have enjoyed doing a couple of hours on Friday and a couple on Sunday, and calling it good. (How much would I really be getting done in the office today? Not much.)