i. The new fad seems to be people separated by one cube or so calling each other on the phone and then giggling at the novelty of 'reaching out and touching someone' instead of, you know reaching out and touching someone. Frankly, the whole sham has all the creative insight of when an 8 year-old pretends to drive a parked car or that the pretzel rod he's smoking is really a cigar. At least when the kid does it it's original and cute.
ii. The gentlemen a few feet from me has spent roughly an hour per day over the past week watching Schoolhouse Rock videos on his computer. Like, the same one over and over and over again. Presumably, he's counting this as his lunch hour, or maybe we have some really, really important work coming up on Interjections!. I'm not one for becoming embroiled in negative zeitgeist, but is "being annoying" a proper cause for termination?

This place looks fun