"Quiet," he says, with the praiseful voice of a man who enjoys that quiet. "Not isolated, though. I live with two others," he says, which keeps him from going too crazy from a lack of interaction. Besides, between Bobo and Faraday, when he wants more sane company, he just comes back down this way.

Giving her an impressed look, he appreciates the Spanish. "That'd be good," he says. "I'll still feel like I'm eating too much, but at least I won't do it completely alone."