Sleeping beauty

There we were, sitting in the conference room, right after lunch, and I see my colleague serenely nodding off. I hate meetings/conference calls after lunch. There is an all pervasive dullness during that time of the day. Well anyway, not to digress- we were doing an important technical presentation for a client. I had several possible options open to me- I could-

-Determinedly look anywhere except at him
-Give a hard poke in his ribs (without attracting others' attention of course)
-Surreptitiously glance at him every now and then, while you yourself try to hang on to your last vestiges of consciousness

I chose option 1. After about 15 minutes though, I couldn't resist the temptation, so I quickly stole a glance. His head gave a particularly violent wobble and his eyes jerked open. He quickly looked around the table and caught me looking at him. Supremely embarrassing! I should have picked option 2.

It is one of those things....

A part of a diary of an Israeli astronaut on board the Columbia space shuttle reached earth after managing to survive the extreme cold and then the explosion. Currently, it is on display in a museum in Israel. And guess where the diary fell when the space shuttle disintegrated- a place called Palestine, ok not the Palestine, but Palestine, Texas. It is one of those little things..

PS: Read about it here.