"Job hunt dissatisfaction," he replies, matter-of-factly, though it doesn't completely explain why he came to Brian's instead of just going home, "Why the hell else to you think I'm in a tie?"

He didn't even own one in Darrow before he found himself unemployed, and so far, the only mileage it's gotten has been on a series of failed interviews. Or days when he should have gone to an interview but decided against it.