PowerPoint presentations
When it comes to watching PowerPoint presentations, I seem to have this problem where after 15 minutes, I can barely keep my eyes open, no matter how hard I'm trying to stay awake. It's just something about the way the lights are dimmed and the glow of the projection screen that makes me so sleepy. Earlier in the week, I was watching a presentation on climate change, and, halfway through the talk, I was just thinking, "Stay awake stay awake stay awake stay awake," over and over. The talk wasn't boring or anything, and I didn't want to offend the speaker, but AAAGGGGHHHH, it was so hard to stay focused! I forced my eyelids as wide as possible, but seeing as how I zoned out eventually, I may have been dozing off with my eyes open.However, even if I'm not struggling to stay awake, I confess to having a very short attention span. Even when it's a very interesting presentation, I keep letting my attention drift to something else. Heck, I would even start daydreaming from time to time when I saw Lord of the Rings in the movie theaters, even though I'm a huge fan of the trilogy!
It's happened a few times where I start thinking about something funny that happened earlier, and I kind of start chuckling silently; I then turn my attention back to the speaker, and realize that he/she is talking about something really serious. I can only imagine what the speaker must be thinking if he/she saw me at that moment; I mean, here they are talking about genocide or something, and there's this one idiot in the crowd who's smiling. I gotta be more careful.
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