You know it's time to go home when...

1. Your 2-year-old daughter calls your office to ask when you will be home, and you didn't even know that she had started to talk.

2. You arrived at the office at 8:00 a.m. and you're still sitting at your desk at 8:00 p.m. and the work hasn't stopped (sometimes you have to call it a day and pick up where you left off the next morning).

3. You wake up in the morning and your spouse is asleep, you come home at night and your spouse is asleep. You haven't seen your spouse's open eyes for days.

4. You know the late-night, after-hours office janitor better than you know your own children.

5. You've memorized the phone numbers of every local take out restaurant within five blocks of your office.

6. You're beginning to feel guilty about the number of pages of work you've printed for the day, feeling that it must be more than one tree's worth; it's more like an entire forest.

7. Your boss has asked you if everything is alright at home because you're spending more time at the office than any other employee in the 60-story building.

8. You meant to get the comforter to the dry cleaner, but it has been in the back of your car for seven months and your spouse finally bought a new one.

9. When you finally do get home, your dog barks and growls at you as though you are an intruder.

10. You haven't slept or changed clothes since the day before; in fact, you spent the night in the office!

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