Things I like about "working from home"

1. Waking up early but not going to work.
2. Heading out to the farmers market to buy: two gigantic bouquets of flowers, two gloriously sweet heirloom tomatoes, one bright purple sweet pepper, a rainbow of radishes, wonderfully crisp cukes, and bunches of aromatic herbs.
3. Returning home to practice French for two hours. Stopped twice to answer work-related phone calls, which I thought was big of me.
4. Watering my wilting garden. The heat has been an unending trial for my roses.
5. Making a Greek salad from aforementioned bounty and eating it at the table we bought in Italy (above) that now lives on our balcony.
6. Sending a few completely inconsequential emails to maintain the appearance of productivity.
7. Perfecting my Greek yogurt recipe (more on that once I complete the taste test). 
8. Listening to Marc Cohn's album, Listening Booth: 1970, which features covers of the songs released in that year that inspired Cohn at age eleven to become a musician. His renditions of "Tears of a Clown," "No Matter What" (with Aimee Mann) and the cheeseball classic "Maybe I'm Amazed" are fab. I have a feeling I'm going to play this album to death.
9. Catching a 4pm movie and scarfing popcorn AND Italian sour cherry soda. DECADENCE. The film, however, sobered me right up. I guess poverty-stricken meth-heads will do that to a girl. Please note that my Blackberry was on, so I was totally working.
10. Making this fantastic recipe for dinner, adapted slightly by swapping edamame for sugar snap peas and adding a pesto of scapes and basil.