Silly questions of usage and dialect.

[mrissa]

[Poll #1239616]

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[kalmn.livejournal.com]

hey, what do you do to the laundry when you move it from washer to dryer to baskets/hanging?

i know people who advance the laundry; at my house, i up the laundry.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

My family flips the laundry.

[madmanatw.livejournal.com]

We just move the laundry. And I have extra time to do laundry when I call in sick.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I transfer the laundry. Or, more often, I handle the laundry. Or I refer to the specific sub-part of the task, because this is a three-person household with very complicated laundry patterns (three-person laundry for towels, one group of two and one group of one for clothing), so, "Can you x while I y?" is a fairly frequent laundry-related question.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

For some reason, this question makes me think, "I one the laundry, I two the laundry, I three the laundry...YOU ATE THE LAUNDRY???"

Abelian grapes. Sense of humor of a highly educated 7-year-old, I'm telling you.

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

Oh, but there's maybe a story in there? "I WON the laundry" being the opening salvo. Like... "I capture the castle." But with laundry and puns.

Don't mind me, something 8 my brain.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

That is, of course, the way to thwart the 6-year-old who comes to you with this joke: "I one the sandbox." "You won the sandbox? Congratulations! What kind of sandbox did you win?"

Official Mean Grown-Up, that's me.

[ckd]

It's also "flip" for us.

As to the original question, the real answer is probably "say that I'm going to work from home today, dig out the laptop, and try to get something done." It's not usually a full day's worth of work if I'm sick enough to stay home, though.

(Ah, the advantages of doing sysadmin or similar work. The data center's not at the office anyway, so remote-from-home and remote-from-work are effectively equivalent for that part of the job, and except for fairly rare in-person meetings most of the intra-team communication is doable online as well.)

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

I switch the laundry.

[redbird]

I understand "called out sick" but would definitely say "calling in sick." And I have neither a superhero's immune system nor the willingness to expose umpteen coworkers and two or three subway cars full of strangers to my illnesses, which is why I am at home right now.

[brooksmoses]

I "put it in the dryer". Then I "take it out of the dryer and fold it".

Oddly enough, I rarely "take it out of the washer" or "hang it". The latter is probably because not that much of my laundry gets hung, so folding is the default.

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

Ditto.

[temporus.livejournal.com]

Well, growing up, it was bring down the laundry. But that's because the washer was on the first floor, but the dryer was in the basement.

Now, I just put the wash in the dryer. Or move it. Or I might ask my wife to toss the clothes into the dryer. I've never heard it called advance.

[brooksmoses]

For what it's worth, I would probably refer to it as "calling in sick" even though (a) it would be an email, (b) I work from home so there's no office to go to anyway, and (c) I'd likely still find myself logged on on the work IRC channel, which is as close as there is to being in the office.

Also, I have found that calling in sick, rather than trying to do thought-requiring work when I'm too brainfuzzed from an illness to do it, is a good thing for my stress levels. Although, last time I did it, it was really more of a retroactively calling in sick -- "Wait, the fact that I probably had a fever for most of the afternoon is most likely related to the fact that I stared at the screen all day and got nothing done. I should probably call that 'sick time' on my timesheet rather than feeling guilty about it...."

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

J says "move the laundry along." Until I encountered that, I don't think I ever had any phrase for it; I would just say "get the clothes out of the washer" or "...the dryer" or "put the wet clothes in the dryer," whatever.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I "put my wash in the dryer, and start the next load of wash".

[arkuat]

I've never heard of "calling out sick", although of course people who do so are "out sick", not "in sick". But I group the preposition with the verb: you're calling IN to work to report that you'll be OUT sick, and this gets contracted to "calling in sick".

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

At first inspection, I would be tempted to suppose that "calling out sick" would be either loudly crying "sick" or challenging a puddle of vomit to a duel.

Ulrika, who watched Ernie and Bert do the original sandbox routine on Sesame Street and who, moreover, has the sense of humor of a not-especially educated 10-year-old.

[kizmet-42.livejournal.com]

Call off sick.

We flip the laundry.

[wshaffer.livejournal.com]

At work (where I "call in" sick even though I do it by email), we have a system called sandbox for doing test builds of code. The first time I successfully completed a sandbox build, I proudly announced to all in earshot, "I won the sandbox!"

I was more disappointed than I like to admit that no one responded, "Oh yeah? Well, I two the sandbox!"

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

I say "call in sick," but say that I "called out."

If I did.

Which I didn't, today.

[guppiecat]

I just call it "doing the laundry". I never felt the need to dedicate a whole verb to that action.

[wshaffer.livejournal.com]

Often we just say, "I'm going to put the clothes in the dryer." or "I'm going to unload the dryer." But if we refer to the process generically, we say, "I'm going to rotate the laundry."

[guppiecat]

Oh, and I don't "call in sick", I send an email saying that I'm "working from home". :)

[genevra.livejournal.com]

We swap the laundry.