"Now now, I didn't say I didn't feel like that. I just said I can tune them out better than if I worked in retail, for example. I guess I just have low expectations for what is ideal." Madison smiled self-deprecatingly. Time to come up with some inspiring bullshit - it wouldn't do to get people thinking she' put up with whatever. "It was never about work to me, I guess. Work is something we have to do to get by. It's what happens outside of it that I consider living." Nailed it.
Madison smiled, eyebrows raising in curiosity as Jim expressed his fondness for languages - or the teaching of them, anyway. What he said next, about being flaky but finding a way to remain respectable actually amused her. "Well, you've got it figured out, Father. What languages are you fluent in?"
That last question made her snicker. "Shouldn't I be asking you that? It's sunk in for me more than it has for you, I bet. Still kind of unbelievable, though. Like I'm in a movie."