- Listening for footsteps.
- Ordering tickets to that thing on that day that we’re going to call in sick.
- Staring blankly at Outlook while praying for Armageddon.
- Synchronizing our menstrual cycles.
- Deleting our Google Toolbar search histories one letter at a time.
- Researching World War II on Wikipedia, followed by the lyrics to Thrift Shop.
- Accidentally sipping yesterday’s cup of coffee.
- Making fun of the company website.
- Starting up a new colony of bacteria on our keyboards.
- Wondering if it’s too soon to go pee again.
- Losing muscle mass.
- Realizing that all of the 6-digit project numbers we’ve memorized have replaced all of the phone numbers we used to know.
- Staring wistfully at our empty water cup.
- Shoving keys, wallet, and phone into waistband of skirt and sneaking out for coffee, leaving purse behind as decoy.
- Re-writing the final episode of Family Ties.
- Looking up everybody we’ve ever known on LinkedIn because it’s the only social networking site that’s not blocked.
- Finally getting around to Googling “proper way to slice an onion.”
- Wondering what that smell is.
- Deleting email from Classmates.com.
- This.