Chat log

Random Guy: Hi there. How are you?
Cyn: Fine. Just work­ing on a project. You?
RG: Nice smile.
Cyn: Thank you.
RG: What project?
Cyn: Sev­er­al, real­ly. Set­ting up a new web­site, look­ing for a new theme for anoth­er blog, and aca­d­e­mics with my daugh­ter, who I homeschool.
RG: (stan­dard age/sex/location thing out of the blue)
RG: cool… so u r in the IT biz too
Cyn: No, I’m a homemaker.
RG: U R look­ing for IT pos.?
RG: u seem smart from teh way u look…
Cyn: Nope. Hap­py at home with my girl.
Cyn: Thank you. Also writ­ing the script for the next pod­cast, will record it tonight.
RG: What do you do when you aren’t at work?
Cyn: This is for fun 🙂
RG: so what do u do beside work?

::sigh. How many oth­er ways could I express that I AM doing what I do “besides work?” I mean, I did­n’t men­tion the loads of laun­dry going, or that I’d just cleaned the kitchen. Home­school­ing isn’t “work” to me. 

Sil­ly man.