today i am working from bed

[denise]

I mentioned in irc this evening that I was working from bed, since sarah woke up in the middle of the night and, finding herself chilly, stumbled into the office to ask me to bring my laptop back to bed with me. (I am the resident space heater in this marriage, you see.) I mentioned in irc that not only was I working from bed in my pajamas, I had every living thing in the house (barring the downstairs apartment) within a 2-foot radius of me, and 3/4ths of the other living creatures in this house were in fact touching me.

This prompted a series of questions about fashions in which people code that are not suitable for public viewing. Therefore, I am making a poll:

Poll #7876

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 97

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At home, I regularly code:

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Without pants on
45 (46.4%)

In pajamas
66 (68.0%)

In bed
43 (44.3%)

In my underwear
44 (45.4%)

Naked
23 (23.7%)

While drinking (alcohol)
21 (21.6%)

While drinking (highly caffeinated drinks)
51 (52.6%)

With a cat draped over me
41 (42.3%)

With a dog draped over me
11 (11.3%)

In some other fashion not fit for public viewing
24 (24.7%)

(kjwcode proposes the next step: pair programming in pajamas.)

Comments

[attie]

My s.o. stumbles over to the computer without pants upon waking every morning. Sometimes he still has not found his way into them when I come back from work. He will also code naked if there are no clean shirts left. I am far too cold to expose myself to the elements like that, and therefore will often code in bed, or take my blanket to the desk with me (that one only counts as unfit for public viewing because my blanket has teddy bears painting rainbows on it).

I am also missing an option for "with someone else draped over me", which, considering the introductory paragraph, really should be there! (Though it's difficult to do that one except in combination with the "in bed" option. The "naked" option also goes very well with those two :P)