But i guarantee you i couldnt talk to them for 2 minutes, before the conversation turned to who was pioneering back home, or how many hours they were striving for this month, or who gave the latest talk or whatever. And i got tired of just nodding my head, and listening to it all as if interested.
Man how true. But I guess that's the price you pay for at least having them not shun you, so even though I could give a rat's ass about who's pioneering, or what their day in FS is I just shut up and say "That's nice". I have to remember that after all this is ALL they have in their lives, and have given up everything for it. But it sure is hard to feign interest in their enthusiasm for 'how upbuilding' the last assembly was, when I know for a fact that they actually had a miserable time!