I’m an average nobody… get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.

-Henry Hill, GoodFellas

Honestly, that was the point of suffering working through 8 years of art school, it’s not like I was trying to be a doctor or a lawyer, I wasn’t trying to save the world… I was just trying to avoid living the rest of my life like a schnook, or as my best friend once astutely observed, I didn’t want to be ordinary.

When I decided to be a writer and then later work in television, I never imagined it would involve me clocking into an office at 9 and clocking out at 5.  The entertainment business was supposed to be loose, it was supposed to be sexy.  Guess what, folks?  This ain’t Entourage.  And after 5 years in the biz,  I still can’t believe somebody actually cares, cared what time I got in,  took lunch,  left at night, or whether I even bothered to step foot in the office at all.  Here’s why:

1. i work better at home, in my underwear, when people aren’t gossiping around me unless, of course it’s gossip I care about
2. i work better intermittently, between the hours of 11am and 11pm
3. my best ideas happen in the shower
4. sometimes i don’t feel like a shower, so maybe it’s better if i’m not around people
5. i prefer my bed/sofa/starbucks to mismatched office furniture
6. i lose all enthusiasm for interacting with people while sitting on top of them on the El
7. loud phone-talking cubicle mates breed hatred and break concentration
8. phones and computers are mobile now-a-days
9. my environment is very important to my creative process
10. it will cost the company less money to let me work from home
11. bonus: more time away from the oppressive workplace, means more time to actually become an above average somebody