in medias res: my office, the couch, ready for #SOL16, #openabe, #NRC01PL & sundry projects

…No, it's nothing like the picture. Then again I'm Not Really Working — although not exactly not-working either.

                  Feng Shui for Home Office in Room Corner

I don't need an office to work (or not-work) from home. I do have one though: my couch. Office equipment and devices? No desk or chair, the only equipment a Chromebook, sans externals.

Let me describe my current arrangement and add approximate found images now, real ones later when I have some. Until then, just appreciate the ironies because. Searching "couch office" doesn't come up with much. Just office furniture, which doesn't look at all like my office couch

My 'office' is the left end of a short couch near the window corner of my small living room in Yuma Housing Authority's High Plains Manor. Telephone, small cabinet (two drawers and a file drawer with no file folders in it) and side table with drawer are to my left, all within reach. A bed reading pillow provides needed extra back support. For a desk, the laptop is on a lightweight adjustable tray table. I work with my feet up because of chronic ankle swelling. The lightweight folding camp stool that I carry with me on walks — cushion added, two on days when my feet need more elevation — doubles as a footstool.

I already knew that adjunct faculty make do with minimal and often unusual office arrangements — cars, closets, hallways, rolling offices. They are not the only ones. Looking for images to illustrate this post, I'm coming across more unusual office configurations — a symptom of our times. There's another post here — or a series of them.

Then there's this one: Why people are swapping the corner office for a nook in a coffee shop

5 reason why Starbucks is the only office you need | Chris J Reed | LinkedIn 

My couch and corner look nothing like this.

So what do I do here? That's what the hashtags in the subject line are about — two online courses (#openabe and #NRC01P), this #SOL16 blogging challenge, other online projects — and another post.  The courses are totally separate but connected. Blogging about them together will make those connections more transparent.

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