Double that for me when the room is both dim and warm. ZONK.

Yes, why are meetings so.... sooooooothing? Especially if the presenter has a monotone voice. I find myself drifting... drifting... and these big important meetings are so often right after lunch, when one feels a bit sleepy anyway. Luckily (luckily?) the chairs in the big conference room are bloody uncomfortable, so…

I've considered asking if anyone minds if I stand off to the side. I may just do that. It would probably be less distracting than if I slapped myself.

I have the same problem, and it's really embarrassing! It truly doesn't matter if it's a topic I'm interested in, though I doubt anyone believes that when they see my eyelids at half-mast. I wish this article included some surefire tips on how to quickly "wake yourself up" when you find you're drifting off...

+1

Thanks, I knew I should have actually looked at the dang thing.

If you enable reduce data usage in chrome for android, your traffic gets routed thru google's servers, which strip out the UDIH while compressing data as well from the sites you visit.

who says I don't try everything possible? Some times it's not possible.

Now that I know this, I will have to put software for my VPN on my phone.

The rule is probably for students who chronically miss school due to abuse/neglect situations, and this is how you can catch them on it. I've worked in several districts in several states, and this is how it goes: if you're not abusing your kid, you have nothing to worry about- the absence will be recorded as…

I just got back from Disney World and Harry Potter at Universal; my daughter missed a week of school. I'm rationalizing it because she's only in third grade, way ahead in class, and it will only get harder when she gets older (also she read the Harry Potter books—all of them—five times in the last few months, so we…

Thanks for the advice, Coop.

There are things I will not tolerate. Students loitering after school. Terrible murders with hearts being removed. And also smoking.

Irate Pizza Driver

It's all fun and games until someone eats Principal Flutie.

I have a friend who got screwed with in that way by a dealership. He has a Google Voice number, so when the inevitable calls started coming in, he redirected them to various extensions in the dealership.