Wait, what?

JOHNSON. Whoops.

I'm too afraid to draw people for fear they'll notice it and get offended.

Totes. I usually only do it at airports and really crowded places. In meetings I just decide to draw a hairline or an angle of a head from someone. Risking actually capturing a likeness (not exceptionally likely with my current rustiness) would be horrifically embarrassing.

I like this project to draw all the people in New York: [link]

Well, that is quite a pedigree. She's designing jeans that Oprah likes, or so my random e-mailed ads tell me. Said jeans do not come in my size, alas.

I never drew in meetings, I wrote drabbles instead. That way it at least looks like I'm taking notes assiduously.

Neat!

I wrote drabbles instead

I used to do that! Then, really, I decided the paranoia that someone would actually read my words had a worse payoff, so back to pictures of random dresses and dudes.

I just want to reach the point where I'm "that chick" and no one thinks twice about it. Who knows? Maybe I'm the only one that cares.

I know that Betsy would needlepoint and do other crafts during meetings. I would never dare.

I did needlepoint during a meeting once, and then I got pulled aside and told it looked bad and I needed to stop. Yeesh. I mean...seriously, I was doing cross stitch. It took no mindpower, and not hardly any visual power either--I was doing the part where I was filling in bits, not counting anything!

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.

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.

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.