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Is it any wonder she doesn't spend a lot of time discussing her work with you?
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Errr ... her work is indeed exciting, as I said above.
She doesn't share that excitement with me.
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just as you might have difficulty now indulging a 5-year-old in endless drawn-out conversations about, say, the battle statistics of various Pokemon monsters.
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I wouldn't have too much difficulty really... it would be kind of fun. I wouldn't really be that mentally invested in the pokemon, but to hear him talk about what tactics or sequence of moves to use would be interesting, and I'd want to know what got him interested (as opposed to all that other stuff out there). Isn't child and personality development interesting?
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Maybe she's looking for the Reader's Digest Condensed Versions when she chats with you on the phone.
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Actually it's me who usually gives the summaries, because I don't usually go into details because whenever I do I've come to realise she doesn't *really* appreciate them. But when I make my summary too short, she gets annoyed, because she wants a conversation, even if it is a very ceremonial one. She does ask what I'm cooking, so my responses are usually very curt like, "oh, chicken". She seems to ask for the sake of asking.