Living with a professor in the sciences I can 100% say that this article is basically true. Some of the comments are amusing too
When you?re the scientist in the family
Number 1 thing is the books OMG: Good thing for Mrs Jammer I'm a bigger bibliophile than her, but when the moving estimates came in and the new university was all "WTF" the moving company replied "most people don't move 10,000lbs in books"
Secondly the time thing....wow are these folks completely unable to keep a schedule outside of their pet projects. Anyone in the field that isn't that way isn't going to last long but yeah its annoying to the other family members.