Hey! Working in television is exhausting! You’ve all heard about that meat grinder called Hollywood? That’s right! You grab some Z’s when you can!
Here are some Trek art department snaps of baby Fritz, little Jimmy, Anfonee, yittle Tony… among others… and they’re doin’ some champion log sawin’! Look at these very carefully, and let them serve as inspiration over the long holiday weekend!
Hush-a-bye don’t you cry, Go to sleep-y, little baby. When you wake you shall have All the pretty little horses. Blacks and bays, dapple grays, Coach and six white horses…
Hush, little baby, don’t say a word. Papa’s gonna buy you a mockingbird And if that mockingbird won’t sing, Papa’s gonna buy you a diamond ring And if that diamond ring turns brass…
Go to sleep my darling, close your little eyes. Angels are above us, peeping through the skies. God is in his heaven, and he watch doth keep. Time for little children to go to sleep…
Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques, Dormez-vous? Dormez-vous? Sonnez les matines, sonnez les matines Ding ding dong, ding ding dong. English Version: Are you sleeping, are you sleeping?
Go to sleep, Close your eyes Tomorrows a new day Go to sleep Close your eyes Tomorrow we will play!!
Sleep, baby, sleep Your father tends the sheep Your mother shakes the dreamland tree And from it fall sweet dreams for thee Sleep, baby, sleep Sleep, baby, sleep Sleep…
Lullaby and good night, with roses bedight… With lilies o’er spread is baby’s wee bed… Lay thee down now and rest, may thy slumber be blessed
Lay thee down now and rest, may thy slumber be blessed…
Sleeping? Oh no, I wasn’t sleeping. A bug landed on my eye and I’m just trying to suffocate it.
Yeah … that’s the ticket … suffocate it …
I liked the one that Joseph Sisko came up with on the DS9 episode: “Homefront”: “I wasn’t sleeping, I was just checking my eyelids for holes!”
Heh heh! Looks like me after my lunch break. So…peaceful….
I used to have a Spanish teacher in high school that had an air horn she used to wield like a gunslinger if anyone would fall asleep in her class. Guess it did its job because I was scared to death to fall asleep. Hopefully production was a little kinder on these daytime dozers!
Did I just see a “D.A.R.E. To Say No To Doug” sticker on one of those monitors?
You spotted my special bumper sticker! Sharp eyes, lad!
Wonder if anyone woke up with some drool on their desk!! I know I have, but only after desperate cramming for exams…..uuuhm drooool!
Mark
Mark, here is the truth. The guy who spent the most time drooling on this couch was John Eaves. He lives way up north, and used to drive in super early to beat the traffic. When I would get in, all the lights where out, the temperature was turned way up, and the place smelled like a packet of dry roasted peanuts! There would be John, contorted in sleep on the couch, drooling like a big dog!
I always thought the siesta was an exceptionally civilized tradition, myself.
gee, I must have fallen asleep…what did I miss?
LOL that looks familiar…
Can I just say “Ouch”. I’ve fallen asleep on a desk a few times, my back aches in sympathy
That’s what I’m gonna look like in a few hours…I stayed out to see fireworks and spend time with family, only to have to work an early shift today….
That couch is lookin’ mighty good!
Matt, that sticker sure does look like it says that, hmmm.
Back when I was in grad school we had a fellow student who felt very entitled to do what she wanted whenever she wanted to do it. Sometimes she would eat your food, regardless of it being marked, if you put it in the common fridge. Sometimes she’s use stuff out of your desk without permission & often not return anything she’d ‘borrowed.’ This behavior also included sleeping upon desire. Regardless of the redirection from peers and staff, she’d pull up a little desk, sometimes not even her own, and make some snoring. You would sometimes come in your office to find her sleeping on your desk, having pushed your things to the floor, for her comfort. She was, I should add, a very deep sleeper to boot. She would snore loud enough to aggravate the offices two doors down. Nothing we would say would click that she was being too rude and entitled. She claimed alternately that she had special needs or that we were limiting her lifestyle choices. Because she had a ‘special’ relationship with her advisor, a powerful person in the department, she was above normal procedures and no one called her on this behavior.
One time, to make a point, ’somebody’ got a crew together and took the couch that she was sleeping on [at an externship setting], down the freight elevator in the building to the loading dock. We had no idea what was being done on the dock that day, we just thought she’d get the point if she woke up outside. As I said, we didn’t know the plans of the workmen, so we were as surprised as she to find out that she later she awoke to the sounds of bridge supports under tires! They’d loaded her onto one of the trucks and were taking her out to long term materials storage!
She was a little bit annoyed by this experience but this didn’t phase her, as she explained that she’d been a victim of harassment. She continued her indulgent siestas.
I was advised later that her habit got her into a little trouble. She was stationed in a maximum security setting where she took a mid-morning nap and found herself being carried over the shoulder to the cell block by a resident on light duty privilages.
I wasn’t there, but I was advised that she changed her sleeping habits, thereafter. Sometimes it just takes a subtle push with some people…
Kinda like the secretary my supervisor had in a facility I use to work in years ago, now. She refused to do any filing, refused to take phone messages or tell you when someone had entered the waiting room, and spent most of her time studying for her school exams. After growing weary from her studying, she’d sack out right at her desk in the main office.
My supervisor tried to release her, but his boss’s mother was a golfing buddy with her and refused to support any action he took to correct her habits and lack of productivity. Things just started to get worse; she started coming to work with a blanket and pillow. Once my supervisor’s boss came in and saw her mid snore and said she could take the rest of the day off, with pay, because we’d been working her too hard.
Some time later, when we’d been normalized to the situation, I heard a scream from down the hall. I went down there and she was grabbing at her own ear rather frnatically, looking all shook up. It seems a relative of an inmate had come by to visit his brother, residing with us at the time for commission of serial sex offenses. The relative had a history of the same and had decides to start doing things to the secretary in question while she was slumbering, including but not only, the thing that finally woke her up; tonguing her ear. He explained that since he was having to wait so long in the reception area, and the magazines were so out of date…
She quit shortly thereafter. This was after initially demanding that she be provided a guard to watch over her when she slept in the office. My supervisor’s boss did not seem to be able to justify that in the budget. We were asked whether we’d help out; a request that did not meet very strong enthusiasm. My supervisor was quite pleased with her departure, though it had never occurred to him to have tried that as an incentive to be rid of her.
As I said; sometimes people just takes a little push…
The DC