"I'm coping," Anders said. He'd be more emo about it, but it was hard to be emo in the face of so much weetiny cuteness. "Things have been weird. But good. Mostly. I was a watercooler for a little while."

Yeah, he was feeling a little non-sequitur-y.

Apparently the penguins liked the cupcakes, because four or five of them flocked over to him and tried to hug his boots with their wings.