Priya, chalking up, not unkindly:
— what are you actually working towards?

I had a good answer ready. It is a joke. I have used it before and it lands.

I heard myself not use it.

I said: I don't know. I've been here two years.

She said: okay. And then she gave me her Tuesday.
No speech. A Tuesday.

The Book of the Bard — Wall 53:2