Comedy

From an ask.metafilter.com question about visiting one's first professional conference:

Take advantage of any and all opportunities to charge your batteries both literally and figuratively. Downtime like this is also a good time to chitchat with other participants about whatever.

I'll cut the author some slack here, but I find myself imagining a fidgity, chatty person, finally freed from the enslavement of not being the center of attention, hogging hotel lobby electrical outlets ("holes") and annoying people like the rest of us who want to stare into space for five minutes.