More important was that I'd established the variability of the recipe, something I'd done before that, and have done ever since.
Except I'd miscalculated: I'd taken a sublet uptown in Morningside Heights, and even before I'd finished unpacking, well-meaning New Yorkers began telling me I'd established myself in the wrong place.
Mr. Daisey wrote in his blog post: "When I said onstage that I had personally experienced things I in fact did not, I failed to honor the contract I'd established with my audiences over many years and many shows.
"So it's not surprising that in my maturity after I'd found my voice, after I'd established my own place in the world I had the confidence to take what was valuable from him".
It also made me feel that I'd established some crucial baseline of virtue, in that it required patience and labor: the heating of water, the stirring of grounds, the minutes-long wait before the plunge.
Yet the stranger thing, it occurred to me, was that no senior colleague had come to observe me in the eight years since I'd established my surgical practice.
Throughout the Crash, I wrote free-hand, not caring about the style or if something I wrote in the afternoon contradicted something I'd established in the story that morning.
At the office, where I'd established a long habit of friendliness, I stayed stubbornly at my desk, staring at my screen and limiting myself to the briefest of exchanges, which themselves were not difficult to replace with gestures — a nod, a wave, a smile, a shrug.
Maybe it's me this time, maybe it's you, but it can really spoil the trip.' By the time we had finished eating and drinking, I'd established that he was not the asshole and - I could have been mistaken - I think he had reached a similar conclusion about me.
At the office, where I'd established a long habit of friendliness, I stayed stubbornly at my desk, staring at my screen and limiting myself to the briefest of exchanges, which themselves were not difficult to replace with gestures a nod, a wave, a smile, a shrug.
