Microserfs

by Douglas Coupland

Learned a new word today: “interiority”—it means, being inside somebody’s head.

Michael has a new obsession: he sits on the patio beside the pool and watches the automated Polaris pool-sweeper scrape decomposed eucalyptus leaves off the pool’s bottom. The pool sweeper looks like R2D2 as it hobbles about its duties, and I think they’re becoming best friends.