Today is National Siesta day. Demonstrate your solidarity with our European brethren by falling asleep at your desk after lunch. If you are challenged respond with the statistic that an afternoon snooze increases productivity by 34%. So although your hours nap may take one eighth of your working day, for the remaining 2 hours you are at least a third more productive, so whilst you may appear to be slacking you are in fact only snoozing for the benefit of your boss.
Be sure to fall asleep face down on your keyboard, to gather drool on your keys. Ruthie finds this gives her keyboard a much more interesting texture and is more effective than a password at blocking other people.
I can’t come!!!...
I had to wake Geeklawyer up to tell him about National Siesta Day.
Ruthie is itching to tell the world about the fact that she passed her motorcycle test yesterday. Whilst she would love to post about this she knows that this would cause Geeklawyer to shout about her posting personal rubbish on the blog. Of course if readers really wanted to hear about Ruthie’s motorcycle test then I guess it would be OK to post about it…
They don’t want to hear about it, so shut up.
But your right and I fully approve the siesta. Indeed I’m not alone in the profession in that, having caught a judge dozing on one occasion - though mercifully it was the other side’s barrister’s droning not mine that acted as the soporific. The award however goes to district judges who seem to have perfecting the art of taking a siesta during trials while both having their eyes open and remaining able to talk.
At least that’s the only credible answer to the inept decisions they keep making.
Here in the States I was once supeonaed to appear as a witness for the Government at a Federal Court trial. The presiding judge called a recess every 15 minutes to go empty his bladder. He must have been at least 101 years old. I thought, at the time, why doesn’t he have a catheter beneath his robes? But, I guess that was impractical, because he kept drifting off to sleep between bathroom visits.