I second (or is that now third) it that one gets terribly lazy and not motivated do stuff when it does come in. However, that seems so rare nowadays that I'm almost quite excited at the prospect of getting my teeth into a project. Time was, many years ago in another not-very-busy-job, that I would get very resentful when work came in to disrupt my tedium.
I sympathise with (sorry, forgot who said it) that she spends so many pointless hours cleaning and going through files again and again. Back to when I confronted my two bosses about getting more work to do, one of them said "Mmm. After all, there's only so many cups of tea one can make in a day." I'm *still* not sure if he was being serious or ironic. I suspect the latter but then again, on seeing me return to the office after 10 days' leave he did say (to someone who was asking if the new coffee machine was working) "I don't care, the teasmaid has just walked in". I'm still promising myself I'm going to put something nasty in his cup one day ...
