Is it? [ That's the thing about altered timelines and living in a place now with no real seasons: it's almost impossible to tell when in their year--when the year itself has no bearing from one person to the next--a day actually is. But it...had been summer back in New York, and it has been a little over six months (for him) since then. ] I'll have to admit, I hadn't noticed, but I suppose.

[ The sigh here is feigned and very clearly a production he doesn't mean at all. Fine, Eddie, you'll get your break. ]

And for the time being, I see no problem with a chosen seating arrangement, but I make no guarantees.