Effing the Ineffable #3: Escaping the “office”, the AI-pocalypse, and delving into sonnetry
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I’ve been working fully remote since the pandemic, having been previously full-time in the office.
At first, it was because pandemic, then it was post-pandemic flexibility, then they wanted to give my office to someone else in a departmental reorganization, and then, after a year, they asked if they could give my future office to a newly created position, and eventually, I was like, What if we just make me officially remote? And they were like OK.
And because this change first occurred in 2020 — when everything was closed — and then I lost my dad unexpectedly and experienced a hard couple of years, I’ve become kind of a shut-in. I still venture out to see friends a couple times a week, and I still attend (99% virtual) meetings for both work and my passion projects, so I guess “shut-in” isn’t the right way to put it.
I’m just almost always home.
As a student, I loved spending hours in my favorite coffee shop or writing outside, and I always…
