Doing it in your sleep
Jan. 3rd, 2010 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lillibetThere's a great ad from the 70's, when Mr. Coffee was touting its timer feature, in which a man getting dressed has the following exchange with a sleeping woman:
Man: Elaine, what are you doing?
Woman: (without opening her eyes) I'm making coffee.
Man: No, you're not. You're sleeping.
Woman: (pulling the pillow over her head) I'm making coffee!
Now, issues of sexism aside, I love the idea of being productive while it might look as though I'm sleeping, or, say, playing a game on my computer or reading a book.
Laundry is satisfying this way. I do twenty minutes of work--sorting, carrying baskets down stairs, putting them in the wash--and then five minutes of work at sporadic intervals throughout the day. And at the end of the day, even if I do nothing else, I have four loads of clean laundry.
Making yogurt is very similar. Pour milk in the slow cooker and turn it on. Come back 2.25 hours later and turn it off. Come back 3.25 hours later, stir in half a cup of yogurt, wrap the cooker in a towel and go away. Come back 8 hours later, pour it into a container and put it in the fridge. I can do this in my sleep.
What else belongs on that list?
Man: Elaine, what are you doing?
Woman: (without opening her eyes) I'm making coffee.
Man: No, you're not. You're sleeping.
Woman: (pulling the pillow over her head) I'm making coffee!
Now, issues of sexism aside, I love the idea of being productive while it might look as though I'm sleeping, or, say, playing a game on my computer or reading a book.
Laundry is satisfying this way. I do twenty minutes of work--sorting, carrying baskets down stairs, putting them in the wash--and then five minutes of work at sporadic intervals throughout the day. And at the end of the day, even if I do nothing else, I have four loads of clean laundry.
Making yogurt is very similar. Pour milk in the slow cooker and turn it on. Come back 2.25 hours later and turn it off. Come back 3.25 hours later, stir in half a cup of yogurt, wrap the cooker in a towel and go away. Come back 8 hours later, pour it into a container and put it in the fridge. I can do this in my sleep.
What else belongs on that list?
