”♪ Your last dance… Last summer… Last chance to beat to your own drumme-… ♫ Hmm? Oh! ‘Ey there! Sorry, I was caught in a vibe. No no, you don’t have to walk away or anything! Here, lemme take the headphones off. iPhone’s off too. Now, what didja need?”

I’m sure this comes as no surprised to you that phrases and recoveries like the above are par for the course when conversing with me! Very rarely am I seen without some sort of media player and audio device in hand or held around my neck – and I’m usually tapped out in a daydream, so nudging me out of my harmonically-induced reverie is borderline essential (of course, unless I see mouthflappage out of my peripherals. What astounds me to this very day are individuals who think that I’m purposefully ignoring them when I can’t hear them to begin with! A few less assumptions, people – you’ll save yourself and your associate lots of headache!

Ah well, c’est la vie.

Lovingly rendered by the sketching protégé, Angelickiddy! Go check her out, she needs some pimpage~. </signalboost>