I'll bring it up in the next quarterly meeting.

[ he nods ]

Well, there's a beautiful woman in my bed so I'd say I'm doing better than ever -

[ aside for the whole fear that he is actually losing mind and the awkwardness with kara, that is, but nobody needs to know about that, right? he's itching to tell her, to talk about everything that's been happening - in and out of his head - but he can't bring himself to say the words. ]