Sometimes, I think that I only work because it gives me access to my very own bathroom. I can go in there whenever I want. I never have to put the seat down or wipe up sprays. I never inadvertently SIT on someone else's pee, and there are no toothpaste smears to look at. I can take as long as I want, and nobody will ask me what I am doing.
No-one is standing outside the door bleeding to death, fighting with a family member, suffering from a sudden disease, or starving.
The dog DOES NOT drink out of my studio toilet.
I have never had to fish a matchbox car or other treasured belonging out of my toilet.
It smells fine.
By and large, I would say that those are pretty good reasons for going to work every day.
This website was invented many years ago, when the author kept coming across interesting things in pockets whilst doing laundry. Like small, terrified reptiles. Blogging about raising children in the rainforest, moving them to the UK and watching them leave home one by one to have their own adventures has gradually been replaced by a return to grownup life for their mother, Nan Sheppard, who is an anthropologist, writer and public international law consultant.
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
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I'm beginning to notice that my days of private toilet use are dwindling. How is it that a sleeping baby will wake up just when you really have to go???
Those are all excellent reasons to go to work.
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