Thursday Thirteen: 13 Ways To Survive A Long, Boring Meeting

by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on March.11.2010

  1. Figure out how you’d spend all those millions if you won the lottery.
  2. Practice falling asleep with your eyes open.
  3. Try taking notes using pictures and symbols instead of words.
  4. Study everyone in the meeting individually, and try to image what they would look and sound like while having an orgasm.
  5. Ask a question you already know the answer to, just to sound engaged.
  6. Come up with a way to trick your spouse when you get home.
  7. Come up with a way to seduce your spouse to make up for tricking them.
  8. Tap your foot to the rhythm of the song that you can’t get out of your head.
  9. Keep your head propped up by your hand or fist so your head doesn’t roll when you nod off.
  10. Make your bathroom trips as long and slow as possible.
  11. Send silly text messages to another person in the room.
  12. Keep checking to make sure you’re not copying the gesture of the person sitting next to you. If you are, sit in the chair a different way and time how long it takes before someone copies you.
  13. Actually listen and pay attention. No really, that is an option.

{ 27 comments… read them below or add one }

Inez Kelley November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

# 4 made me snort out loud.

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CCDreamz November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

I'v almost mastered # 2 and #4 is a scream. I don't care what you say #13 is not an option! Great read!

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** Tatiana Caldwell November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

You're close to mastering #2? O teach me dear master!

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Elise Logan November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

I don't mind meetings. It's when they start repeating themselves I become disengaged.

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** Tatiana Caldwell November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

In general, I don't mind them either. It's when they go beyond 2 hours (especially near 8 hours like the ones I've been in every day this week) that I struggle with. *yawns and rubs eyes*

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Ella Drake November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

#4 made me kinda throw up in my mouth a little.

Have you been to any of my meetings?

:)

Happy Thursday!

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** Tatiana Caldwell November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

But if your co-workers are um, unsexy, I would think that would make the exercise even more entertaining! Imagine some of the private laughs you'd have!

Hmm, maybe I just have a twisted sense of humor …

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Mary Quast November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

When I read #4, I thought it said, "Come up with a way to lick your spouse when you get home." LOL Great list! Happy TT.

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** Tatiana Caldwell November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

*laughs* I bet your version of it would be just as effective!

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Stephanie Adkins November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

Actually, I've tried #2. LOL! (It's impossible to do). Happy Thursday!

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Jennifer Leeland November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

I don't think I want to imagine my coworkers having an orgasm. That's just NOT going to happen. LOL.

Great suggestions.

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** Tatiana Caldwell November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

Hey, don't knock it until you try it! You just might find yourself highly amused!

*clears throat* not that I would know personally …

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Paige Tyler November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

LOL! Those are great! I especially love number four!

*hugs*

Paige

My TT is at http://paigetylertheauthor.blogspot.com/

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Bryn November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

Ha! This is a great list!

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** Tatiana Caldwell November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

Thanks! :)

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Kimberly Menozzi November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

Great, great stuff, here. What's scary is I've actually done a variation of #4! Okay, only with a couple of coworkers in particular, but… Heh.

Ciao!

Happy TT!

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** Tatiana Caldwell November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

What kind of variation, hunh? Do tell.

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Sophia Parkwood November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

I don't have to attend any boring meetings but I do have to occasionally attend parties for my husband's work. I have perfected #2, while standing up. Great list. Happy Thursday!

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** Tatiana Caldwell November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

1) You don't have to attend any boring meetings, and 2) You can sleep with your eyes open AND while standing up.

I'm envious.

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Wilfredo November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

Hahaha! This is funny to me because I don't do meetings!

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** Tatiana Caldwell November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

So. *crosses arms*

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Sherri November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

I've done about 7 of those! *lol* But unfortunately I work with librarians, and some of them are the picture of the sterotype…no orgasms for them!

Hell, they'd probably have to brush the dust and cobwebs off first…

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** Tatiana Caldwell November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

*giggles*

Which is why it would probably send you to tears to try to picture them that way.

Next time you're bored, try it.

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Alice Audrey November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

I bet #4 would have everyone looking at your weird.

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** Tatiana Caldwell November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

Not unless they can read your thoughts.

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Sasha Devlin November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

LOL, this list! 11 and 12 are ALL me!

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slaus November 29, 1999 at 6:00 pm

Yeah I tried number 4. All I did was get reallllly horny. My female coworkers were hot. .uhm..not as hot as my wife though

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