I found myself ordering a van the next day, and then finding a teacher.
It's ambitious but not fiddly – I found myself ordering saltpetre for salt beef off the internet, thinking, "check me out, I'm one step away from cooking my own crystal meth", but I didn't find anything outside the skillset of a pretty average home cook.
Yet I denied it, even when I found myself ordering his favorite pancake breakfast and scheduling a sunset walk on the beach that he would have loved.
To my surprise, I found myself ordering another burger -- a cheeseburger -- and I'm glad I did: it was well seared, juicy and messy to the point where I had to resort to a knife and fork after a while.
And as someone who once weighed over 450 pounds, I would find myself ordering the "venti" (the extra large, to those in the know) and drinking down every last autumn-y (read: sugary) drop.
I was amused to find myself ordering hamburgers for three fifth-graders dressed as Jason Giambi, Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez.
Relaxed hair has a narrow range of variation; natural, however, comes in an array of texture, kink, curl, thickness, length, and a surprisingly increasing number of standards against which you are constantly judged and which I find myself navigating in order to maintain something resembling integrity.
I wasn't partial to any particular gin, though I found myself mostly ordering Hendrick's, a cucumber- and rose-infused Scottish brand that has become to gin what Grey Goose is to vodka in most bars: the ubiquitous top-shelf brand.
His suggestion for a meeting place throws me immediately: "How about a hostelry in Richmond?" And so I find myself, waiting at the bar, ordering us both a drink.
