Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow

So, classes start up again tomorrow...and my advisor is back...good-bye, freedom.  In this day and age, why hasn't it become the norm for academics to do most of their work from home?  I can do my work from anywhere, even my toilet.  I don't even need the internet most of the time, except for when I'm doing a lit search.  True, there are benefits to having some facetime with your advisor but that can easily be done by scheduling weekly or bi-weekly 30 min to 1 hour blocks of time to meet with them.  I mean somedays I only say hi to my adivsor anyway (some days not even that).  So why do I need to waste the time to commute to campus and be in that stressful and tense environment?  I'm so much more productive without a micro-managing psycho looking over my shoulder.  I'm also a lot more productive working from 9am-1pm then running errand or getting out of the house for a couple hours then working 1-2 hours before dinner and working another 1-2 hours in the evening.  Even though it doesn't add up to 8 hours, I get so much more accomplished than when I'm in the office for 8 hours.


We graduate students need to start a revolution, we need a grad student equivalent of Marx or Lenin.  Graduate students of the world, unite!

...I can't wait for Friday to come :(


P.S. Why is it so hard for people to NOT hit "reply all" in a group message or for them to copy and past the e-mail address of the sender so as not to send their idiotic and irrelevant e-mail to everyone on the list-serv?  And these people have a PhD!!!!  That should be grounds for revoking their PhD and all the rights and privileges pertaining thereto!