At my last job, when my hours were 10-6, I ended up getting a new task dumped on me that required that I be present at 8:00 am meetings on Monday morning, but I didn't need to pay attention, so I would print out the most porny fic I could find and read it in the meetings.
You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?
Early ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Lee - Aug 10, 2010 2:22:05 pm PDT #17215 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Jesse - Aug 10, 2010 2:26:30 pm PDT #17216 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, anything that's not pen and paper looks too much like not-work for meetings, I think. Not that it IS any less work than drawing.
I have one coworker who always draws a woman's face, and another who does random doodles.
§ ita § - Aug 10, 2010 2:26:45 pm PDT #17217 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I would print out the most porny fic I could find and read it in the meetings.
Now that takes ovaries. I have had problems where people have said things that are titles of porny fics and suddenly I'm flashing back to...stuff. Reading? Never. I totally don't have the stone face for it.
Tom Scola - Aug 10, 2010 2:27:33 pm PDT #17218 of 30001
hwæt
SailAweigh - Aug 10, 2010 2:27:42 pm PDT #17219 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Whoohoo, way to go Perkins! Unfortunately, I have so few meetings to go to anymore, that I don't have any reason to do that.
meara, your boss sounds like my old boss. I had to be Ceasar's wife and couldn't do anything that looked "bad", no matter that the boss and his sidekick did whatever the same shit was or worse.
Lee - Aug 10, 2010 2:28:01 pm PDT #17220 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I got to sit in the back of the room, away from the main table, or else I probably wouldn't have either.
sarameg - Aug 10, 2010 2:30:44 pm PDT #17221 of 30001
I can tell how annoyed one of my developers is in meetings by how heavily he colors in the lines on his doodles. But then, he's not exactly a repressed sort of guy, so verbal cues quickly follow.
Really good swim tonight. I kept forgetting to count, so I swam somewhere between 46 and 52 laps straight, in 45 minutes. I know it was at least 46, but am certain I repeated at least 3, and the others I am not sure about.
amych - Aug 10, 2010 2:32:39 pm PDT #17222 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Unfortunately, I have so few meetings to go to anymore
Other than the fic example, this sequence of words does not make sense in any universe.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 10, 2010 2:33:30 pm PDT #17223 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I wish I could knit in meetings. Well, I can knit in theatre meetings, but not "real work". Knitting actually helps me pay attention. I am not a doodler, as I am too self conscious about my drawing ability. I do draw diagrams to explain things as I talk, though. I end up with the notebooks with weird circles and arrows-- but I have a hard time explaining /understanding things without visualizing them.
brenda m - Aug 10, 2010 2:33:37 pm PDT #17224 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I don't think I'd read fic, but I have totally been posting here from the BB during long meetings. And if I'm WFH all bets are off.