The word of the day on my calendar today is "demarcate" meaning to fix or define the limits of.
The challenges of demarcation neatly sums up the good and the bad of working from home. No longer do I need to stay late at school just trying to finish that last thing before I can pack up and go home with clear conscience to enjoy the evening.
But, no longer do I leave work at all. My desk is in my dining room, and any unfinished business greets me several times a day.
But, I can eat and drink and bake and stretch and pet the cats and dog any time during my day. Which is good, because the days are really long.
My calendar tells me that the word probably comes from the Italian, marcare, or to mark. Funny, I can't decide if I'm marking the days until we return to normal, or if the days are marking me. Either way, there has got to be a limit.
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