My work has graciously put me into a training class for something we are hoping will help us get better organized as a department. IT isn’t bad training or anything but I always find myself having a hard time sitting in a class for eight hours over a couple of days. They could have given us the most comfortable chairs I would still be having the back issues I have right now. So to keep myself awake, I have to do little things like stand in the back of the room when I can’t take the chair anymore. Other things include spending my lunch break writing this or checking in on my team. I look around the room and I see the same waves of sleepiness and sometimes loopiness overtaking others as well. I don’t know if these kinds of things happen to you in these all day things but trying to take in all the information and pass the test at the end is a challenge for me. My favorite part of training is when the teacher says, “now this isn’t on the test”. I know the training isn’t all about the test but trying to fill my brain with the things I need for the test is hard enough without giving me information I won’t need later today. In between the moments of jello brain and attention I only have a few facts that get stored, don’t waste them on me!