John's Blog

How to Stay Awake in Boring Meetings
This person suggests you create a gameboard and play a game of BS Bingo. My own personal technique is copious note taking. I used to use my Palm Pilot, but that became a double whammy. I'd get accused of falling asleep AND playing games during meetings, so I've gone back to the more traditional paper notes. It has the advantage of allowing you to doodle as well. But I must fess-up that my notes are usually mindless ramblings, or repeated writings of Bart Simpson-like quotes. But it keeps me awake, or at least "looking like" I'm not dozing.