Excuse you. Winging it is a perfectly viable lifestyle and he will show you how the next time something crashes through the walls.

"Mmhmm." Snip snip snip. "S'been..." He paused, tilting his head a bit as he mentally went over the months. "About six months or so? Give or take." Snip snip. "Shinji and I were part of the first group that got dropped in."