A woman at work drives me batty. I can't stand her voice, her affections, and the way she talks to me. She thinks we're pals; not in the going out to lunch together way, but in the "oh, I haven't talked to you all day and I feel bad about that, how are you?" way. I try to look super busy when she's near. I avoid walking past her desk unless I have papers in my hand I'm frantically looking through while I'm walking. What other ways do you have of avoiding inane conversations with people you have to be cordial to but don't want to be friends with?