Obviously it was related to the entire gestalt of Simon's polyphobia and compensatory counterphobia. The boys used to watch horror movies on late-night television […]

And loud that clarion voice replied / Excelsior!

her dolorific heart

But in reality you are doing what one Dilbert reader calls multishirking, i.e., doing two nonwork activities at once. Multishirking is not only fun; it doubles the odds that an observer will think you're doing at least one work-related activity.