‘You sit on your laptop all day long, working all by yourself. How do you manage it? Don’t you get bored?’
‘No no. I talk to Eliot whenever he is in.’
‘I don’t see you talking much with others. You just come, do you work quietly all day….’.
A quiet confused stare.
‘…..You are by yourself all day long. You are such a…. loner. How do you pass your entire day here?’
‘Uh-huh'. Tick of head, accompanied by a shoulder shrug.
Wondering how to put up a loner face.
Changing the topic to work.
(smiling inwardly).

Correction: "You sit working on your laptop all day long". You nitpickers. Jeez!!!
That was a gult talking to me btw.
The gult is interested in you and hitting on you.....;)
Do you guys worry about the "composition" of a team - you know... 2 whites, a black, 1 hispanic, 3 women, a chinese, 2 Indians - a southie and a northie, etc.....?
We do such calculations all the time.
You laid a lot of traps in there. Not biting any of it. Sorry.
fine. be that way. no need to answer. happy ?
A beautiful, old, sad tamil song comes to my mind...but will defer.