Those kinds of jobs don't show up often, but when they do, it usually means something big happened. ... Guess I can't really call those times "jobs", though - even if we do tend to get hired during them.

[At this point, he's starting to slip back into a more relaxed and less awkward tone - at least for this conversation. The journals being "in the way" is more helpful for him trying to get used to this than he thought they'd be.]