"I believe in a ridiculous amount of fantasy novel plots, and yet, not once has the Millennium Falcon ever showed up outside of my door to let me carpool into work," Ravi protests, as he starts to make his cup of coffee into something he likes.

Obviously it's not something he can pick up from a local shop in Seattle, which is one of the biggest disappointments of having to be stuck in the middle of nowhere in a tiny village where local entrepreneurs haven't exactly started to develop their careers in coffee.

"Speak for yourself, on Tuesday, I go to the hospital and give the rats a new round of tests. I call it 'Teaching Tuesday'," he says, because that's what his life has come down to.