Monotony Escapee Pillows

Beached Whales

"Another week another dollar, Jenkins"

Exciting potato bugs.

Daily Routine

'I'd rather be playing football.'

Still Here

'And this is where daddy goes through the motions.'

'Seems like everyday is bring your work to work day.'

'You're listening to no repeat radio where we never play the same song twice! Yeah! No repeat radio! Where you'll never hear the same song twice! Only on no repeat radio!'

Routine on/off office

"Not that it makes a difference, but is this Wednesday or Thursday?"

"I have a high tolerance for tedium."

Are we a bunch of losers? Who are you talking about? Me, Randy, Sadie, even you Uncle Mort – all of us cafe regulars. We've been hanging out at this place for years. I've been working here two decades. Do we have nowhere else to go? More powerful even than inertia: Any momentum killed by an uncompromising nap regimen. Zzzz.

"I'm doing 9 to 5."

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz - 'How did my life get this dull?'

'Thank you Fenster. You gave us a real sense of the redundant banality of what we do here.'

'Dad, can I speak to you, offline, about father son bonding?'

"Events are unfolding very slowly."

De Ja Vu Inc.

"Same."

"I've bought home some work, which I'll be doing in my study. See you in the morning. Good night."

"I've been to the office..."

"It was a day like any other, so I guess I'll have the usual."

… and then I got laid off from my law job and I've been just … hanging out. It's been interesting. Being outside the type A machine, I realize just how dependent I was on the judgment of bosses, and, before them, teachers. Some days, I can go whole hours without feeling like I'm letting someone down. No kidding. More like half-hours. Minutes, really. I exaggerated. Do you still like me? Careful, something strange afoot.

Photocopier Paper Plane

“I keep doing the same thing over and over, but keep getting the same results.”

'So you're leaving LA! Well, good riddance, ya pantiwaist!'

"No cell phone, no e-mails... boy, I've never felt so free1"

'Today, I did the same thing I did yesterday, and the day before. I'm feeling so run down...'

'We'd like to get away from reality TV.'

"We've got to try to coax him back into his enclosure."

McGhee makes a run for it!

'Same old, same old.'

'There's nothing on television - Do you want to have a fight?'

As a teleworker Colin sometimes struggled against feelings of isolation.