Spread Em.
This page and the next originally appeared side by side. There are places here where the stippling helps to define different areas, but it also ends up making things kind of muddy.
I think the flow across the page works though, even if you don't follow it in the 'right way' each moment is kind of self contained. And if you ever want to ignore someone on the phone say, use Alex's two un-huh's followed by and un-uh. Works pretty well.