Well, I survived V-Day without hubby; we talked the day before and day after, as it's not possible for us to talk really except Tuesdays, Thursdays, and occasionally on the weekend, between our two schedules and his limited phone access.
I had somehow thought that having him gone would give me a lot more time to get things done, but it doesn't apparently work like that. I'm just barely not falling behind in class prep and grading, I have a conference paper that needs to be finished in the next 8 days that I have hardly started on, and the house is filthy. *sighs* What I want is, like, a fortnight of time that has no commitments whatsoever, just to let me catch up on things. Not going to happen, is it?
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It is so true that when we think we'll have a lot of free time because something changes (like your hubby being out of country) our days really just fill up with other things.
Did you get your paper done? What was it on?
Nope, still working on it. It's on clerical book ownership in late medieval York. :-) A truly obscure topic...
LDW and I talked about this when I visited him. We were both pretty productive, and put it down to a couple of things -- we'd planned fun evenings, so he wouldn't feel guilty and I wouldn't feel resentful about my going all that way to work while basking in his reflected glory, and neither of us could goof off (which I do far more than he does, but I think he fritters as well). The same was true when Cranky and I spent a lot of time together in grad school -- we'd police each other and then share rewards. And when Professor Kinsey and I were roommates, her house was never cleaner and we both did a lot of work -- peer pressure! A good thing, because she and I are both clutter machines :-)
It's definitely better when he's here. Partly I goof off a little less, but just having two sets of hands lightens the work. There's a kind of minimal amount necessary regardless of how many people are here, but it doesn't double with two, so it's less per person when he's home.
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