I work for a history scholar myself, Spock, and I am constantly trying to figure him out.
Seriously, a lot of the time it's difficult, because the fellow trusts me rather completely. That's a tremendous compliment. But I wonder sometimes at the distance he maintains. There is always something like that between a leader and the led, it's only proper. This is more than that. Then again, we recently bonded completely on the search for a particular datum relevant to a project we were working on. It was great fun to be so completely on the same page, trying to ferret out fact. I step back from this, and analyze.