and sort of did the peripatetic writer

she feared he would use the word peripatetic, and soon enough he did

Not surprisingly, the BLS does not enumerate the gigariat. But assuming these peripatetic workers do actually work someplace for someone

one instance of peripatetic know-how

I seem to recall stuff about clinically fat people engaged in peripatetic eating that made them look bovine.

David Foster Wallace called the condition Total Noise. With it, our reading became peripatetic, less focused.