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!
Here is your cup of coffee. Brewed from the finest Colombian lighter fluid.
Xander ,'Chosen'
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.
meara - Aug 10, 2010 2:21:23 pm PDT #17214 of 30001
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.
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.
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
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
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.