"Spending your days sifting around through scrap metal for parts, like some people I used to know,' she suggests. "Those that waste their whole day with no result, doing things like pining," she adds, even though there is something romantic about that, she assumes. "I've never knit. I'm not really much with my two hands in that sense."

She could be, but she chooses not to be. Should she rethink that? It feels like something that she shouldn't be so firm about.

"I spend most of my days running tests and making vitamins, so I'm not sure how loudly I can speak about other people and their strange hobbies," Niska admits.