My Gollum

Credit: Douglas Ridloff

Paris was the pinnacle of 2013 in many ways.

Ciggy Breaks

Let's pretend nicotine doesn't exist for a moment (therefore no evil cancer stuff and all that jazz).  

Think about smokers and those special ciggy breaks that allow normal sociable people to suddenly retreat to some distant isolated corner 10-20 feet away from their circle of activity to spend a few minutes alone with their cigarette.  Then they return to society and resume participation.  What do they do other than just smoke during those few minutes?