sonofableep

’tis the season for studio hibernation, official or otherwise.

back when i was at EA, the studio officially shut down for the entire week between christmas and new years, and lots of folks stretched that into two weeks of vacation.  for the few that did not, the workplace was a ghost town, dotted with a few people here and there…gaming on the clock, or perhaps even being more productive than usual in the absence of all their distracting peers.  :)

things aren’t all that different at my new home.  despite the studio officially being open during the final week of the year, lots of people are gone for a week or even two, leaving a skeleton crew to…do some gaming and/or actually get lots of work done.  well i’m part of the skeleton crew this time, having squandered away all my vacation time before december rolled around.  i’ll be off a day or two for christmas, and then it’s back to the mill – probably locking the door to my office so people assume i’m gone, then bearing down and writing loads of music in peace & quiet.

maybe i’ll throw in some kind of twist to keep things interesting – like seeing how many days can i go without pants until someone notices or says something.  sheeyoot, man…that’d be just like the halcyon days of working at home, except this time with a full service cafeteria just down the hall.