How I focus during meetings.

As much as I would love to make money while sitting at home in my pajamas and writing, drawing, designing...or even playing video games and eating ice cream, I am one of the millions of people forced to awake every day at some abominable time in the morning, catch a bus for an hour and a half commute, and sit in an office all day.  I'm a creative person and I need to be stimulated almost every minute of my life or I get...er...well I get really bored really quickly.

So when I have to sit through meetings where my input isn't really needed, or requested (seriously, sometimes I'm just there as a warm body to make the meeting look more important), then I have to focus my attention on something creative in order to force myself to pay attention to whats going on, otherwise the words start to blur together and I end up having to fight off sleep.  I thought maybe I would share a particular result of that focus:

The remark was made at one meeting that this was "quite the doodle".  I can understand calling it a doodle, I guess.  But I think there's some hidden expression there...maybe...or maybe I'm just making things up so that it doesn't seem like I'm drawing squiggly lines all day.  Who knows.