It works for me too. I especially like having Discworld novels in the background. I know them so well that I don't have to pay too close attention. At the same time, each new re-listen uncovers something new.

I like podcasts for housework. I can't think and listen at the same time, but if I don't really need to think, excellent.

Yeah, that's where I'm at -- commuting and housework. But my commute is short and I don't do much housework!

Poor Loki, no fangs. I hope it doesn't bother him too much and he can still eat all his favorite foods.

I also listen to podcasts about 8 hours a day because they somehow help me concentrate?

Me too. Often times I won't be able to tell you what was actually in the podcast, but somehow I get less distracted having that background talk. Maybe I feel like I don't have to pay a lot of attention because I can always replay it.

I always feel like I Should Be Doing More. Other people need to and should relax and take it easy, but I shouldn't.

An example of this! While I've been trying to fall asleep each night, I've been planning the projects I want to get done in the next six days, because Pete leaves for 3 weeks for events on Wed. afternoon, and I have house guests turning up next Tuesday:

Clear and find places for everything that has built up on the kitchen table, clean the bathroom again, clear a cabinet in the living room so I can at least temporarily store all of the graphic novels and art books that have built up on every flat surface in the living room, buy couch covers and put them on, and clear, sort, and cull everything in that one corner of the library that has become multiple teetering stacks of things. And work, and go to social events on Friday night and Saturday day.

I am starting to think I won't get all of that done. But I feel like I need to! /crazybrain

Poor fangless Loki. But I hope he feels better.

I have too many podcasts to listen to. Not all of my work days lend themselves to it, but today it worked great. This podcast takes less attention from me because I just watched the EPA, so I know what they are discussing. I can't listen and do much work with something like Serial .

Wah. My lunch didn't take and I left my cash in the pockets of yesterday's jeans so I don't think I can get anything from the vending machine.

I took the morning off because I felt like shit when I woke up. As I walked to my desk, the guy on the other side of the cubicle wall looked up, blinked, then grinned. "Well, look who decided to come to work. Look at what the cat dragged in."

Normally I'm beyond annoyed at that sort of thing because it makes me uncomfortable to be noticed and commented on, but I was quite pleased. A, I enjoy that guy, and B, some times it is nice to be seen and have your existence recognized. It's a friends-at-work thing, but it meets my daily converse-with-a-human-in-meatspace needs.

My neck hurst and I think a combo of watching so much on my computer and also not sleeping great is the culprit. I am going raise my computer screen up so I am not looking down so much.