thanks for the reply. in the past, I had asked him if I was botherig him too much, and he said I wasn't, so he probably didn't pick up on my obsession. He doesn't approach me, so I friendship outside of work doesn't seem possible, at least right now, and that's fine.

It is nice to have people on these forums that do understand, espeically things like our obsessions (with people) that NT's wouldn't understand.