Are you a doodler? I doodle when talking on the phone. I don’t talk on the phone a lot, because I mostly don’t enjoy it. Especially when I worked for That Major Corporation and often had to be on conference calls. To keep myself from becoming agitated, I usually played games of solitaire on my computer while enduring those bouts of torment. But then management had IT run a program to see what all the employees were doing on their computers, and I got in trouble for playing solitaire. That was, oh, a LITTLE annoying, since at the time, I was working sixty-hour weeks and filling in WITHOUT COMPENSATION for my manager, who was on maternity leave. So I asked IT to take solitaire off my computer, and also take away my access to the Internet. No temptations for me! I went back to the old-fashioned pen or pencil means of doing something with my hands while being forced to listen to phone conversations in which I had no interest and that had nothing to do with my job.
Even though my phone use these days is limited to being on hold while calling businesses and waiting for a real person to talk to me, or having conversations with people I actually enjoy talking with, I still like to doodle while I’m on the phone. I figure I may as well make my doodling worthwhile, so I keep my angel books and a container of colored pencils nearby.
