ok, first, I do the compulsive clicky thing too. I just go through my blogroll. My hands have to be doing something, if I'm sitting at the computer, even if my brain isn't engaged. Second, _take coffee into meetings_ of any length. That's the rule. It also helps stifle laughter, frowning, etc because you can just lift the coffee to your mouth and voila, no one can see the smirk. At least, that's what I do...
I click through the blogroll too. I'll go through it once and then go through it again in case someone's updated it while I was reading through the first time. 
And I'm adjusting too the the schedule of the semester - clearly not posting as much as I did in the summer (although tonight I'm just zooming through commenting on everyone's blog, despite my undone class prep...).
What has always killed me about faculty meetings is that here is a group of people who COMMUNICATE FOR A LIVING, and you would never be able to tell from the way they run meetings..>!
Amen on the "tenure really does feel different" thing. This is my first tenured year as well, and the difference has nothing to do with the goodness of my citizenship (if anything, as I posted a couple of days ago, I'm doing infinitely more than ever before for department and college), but rather with my general feeling of safety when I speak my mind.
In fact, the difference is that I speak my mind. With fewer qualifiers. I've even gotten angry, and said so -- granted, via email, but this felt freeing, in a truly remarkable way. In theory, I could have sent exactly the same email last year, and have had it responded to exactly the same way. But in fact, I'd have felt completely differently about the experience, such that I'd never have hit 'send' at all.
So good for you. It's really astonishing to discover that, in fact, not only is there light at the end of the tunnel, but wide open spaces, in which one can roam any whicha way.
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