Detail-oriented Soul Mugs

"This pesky decimal point seems to give you quite a bit of trouble."

Whats ticking away in YOUR filing system?

Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda

"Talking to your own reflection? Even your imagination is pathetic."

That midnight hour when fleeting memories come home to roost.

"Oh good, more time alone for quiet reflection."

"Hey! If you're here to marvel at the smallness of your existence within a glorious, vast and unknowable universe, there's a line!"

"I wanted a Meticulous Monday or a Thorough Thursday report. This reads more like a Frivolous Friday."

"Is this who I am?"

"Enough about the forest, why don't you show us more trees?"

The older I get, the more introspective I get, or is that retrospective?'

Trilby - 'Oh my poor girl! my poor girl!'

'Funny, I thought a near-death experience would be different, somehow.'

"I feel like there's a chick in me trying to escape."

"Did you hear Sadie's show today?"

"Office of quality assurance"

'Openly sobbing, or non-openly sobbing?'

I was starting a new chapter in my life and I tripped over a footnote.

The Sensitive Dude.

"Wonder if there's something wrong with you? Reality is for us all it's true..."

Late-Onset Epiphany

"He used to be a senior fact checker at Meta — now he's just a pedant."

"Date of birth?" "1989." "In 1989 I couldn't make ice... still can't." "Good lord, she could be my daughter! I'm so #!@* old." "That's the year my wife left me. Now I have a cold and I'm depressed!"

"Solitude is so much better if you have someone to share it with."

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious day when you're ripe and not yet mealy?"

Whoa, easy on the details, brother! This may be shrunk down for an e-book someday.

"You say in your resume that you're very meticulous."

"Pardon, I should have been more specific...is everything all right with THE MEAL?"

We thought we'd put in the detail later.

PastFuture.

The big life questions that really get us thinking.

"To tell you the truth, I never thought downward mobility would be so, well, downward."

"Why are we here?"

"I've always been attracted to small architectural details."

Micromanagement