• They told me at the blood bank this might happen.
• This is just a 15 minute power nap like they raved about in that time management course you sent me to.
• Whew! Guess I left the top off the White-Out. You probably got here just in time!
• I wasn't sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm.
• I was testing my keyboard for drool resistance.
• I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve work-related stress. Are you discriminatory toward people who practice Yoga?
• Damn! Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to our biggest problem.
• The coffee machine is broken.
• Someone must've put decaf in the wrong pot.
• Amen.

Submitted by Rene J. Schweitzer.

• I was working smarter - not harder.
• Whew! I must have left the top off the whiteout.
• This is one of the seven habits of highly effective people!
• I'm actually doing a Stress Level Elimination Exercise Plan (SLEEP) that I learned at the last mandatory seminar you made me attend.
• This is in exchange for the six hours last night when I dreamed about work!
• Boy, that cold medicine I took last night just won't wear off.
• Ah, the unique and unpredictable circadian rhythms of the workaholic!
• I wasn't sleeping. I was trying to pick up my contact lens without my hands.
• The mail courier flipped out and pulled a gun so I was playing dead to avoid getting shot.
• Geez, I thought you (the boss) were gone for the day.

Found by the Tamster in Daily Humor.