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我在办公室住了500天现代社会中，随着生活方式的多样化，人们观念里对“家”的定义也在发生着改变。家的形式不再限于拥有一所大房子、一个稳定的住所。有些人蜗居在小房子里，有些人住在房车里，有些人甚至以垃圾桶为家，下文的作者就体验了一把住在办公室里的生活。无论家的形式如何，只要你喜欢这种生活方式，过得开心快乐，不用为了房租、房贷而放弃梦想，那四海为家又何尝不可呢？I was asleep when I heard the door rattle against the frame. My eyes flashed open and I sprung upright in my under-desk sleep space. Was it all over？ Had someone come to work early？ I peered over my desk， afraid of what I might see. The morning sun burned through the chicken-scratch1） graffiti of the office’s front door， spilling across the labyrinth of desks spread out before me. There wasn’t a soul in sight. I breathed a sigh of relief. Probably just paranoia2）. Or maybe not―a breeze blew the front door against its frame， the pygmy3）-like rattle of a loose door jamb. It was the same sound I heard moments before and would hear countless times in the future but never quite get used to.A little paranoia goes a long way4） when you live in a 10-square-foot workstation. I stood up， stretching my limbs toward the sky like a thawing， cryo-preserved humanoid， neck kinked and back stiff. I bent down to deflate my air mattress. The clock read 6：45 a.m. Under normal circumstances I’d still be asleep， but these circumstances were far from normal.Earlier that week， I had moved into my office. Secretly. I rented out my Venice Beach apartment for the month， packed a few duffels5） with my clothes and prized belongings， and started taking up residence behind my desk， carefully using each square inch of out-of-sight real estate to store my stuff. Not everyone aspires to have their co-workers catching them at their desk in their tighty-whities6）―at 6 in the morning. Believing the best-case-scenario reaction to my being there would be supreme awkwardness， I kept the whole thing to myself. Every morning I’d neatly pack away my personal belongings， turning the lights back on and lowering the air conditioning to its too-chilly-for-me 72 degrees―the way they always left it overnight. I’d leave for a morning work