If we have homemade nut butter and granola bars that week, there's also a bag of pretzels in the snack cupboard.
"Just in case," said Lawrence Bondalich, the bartender at Cesca on the Upper West Side, handing me a wine list and a menu, as I sat down at his bar that week.
For now, what I really want to talk about is S. I met S two years ago at a bar the week that I moved to this city.
Open daily 11am-3pm, 5pm-10.30pm Now that the whole city seems to drink gourmet gin and tonics in specialised cocktail bars that open every other week (Spaniards are the world's third-biggest consumers of gin), the exquisite waiters at Del Diego keep mixing deliciously simple gin fizz and gimlet cocktails, in which you do not find cucumber slices or rose petals.
I know this because the video was broadcast by one of the perpetrators on a TV in a bar later that week.
We wandered toward the Stinger, a three-week-old bar that opened with a bang.
Despite its low body count, this incident likely attracted more attention than, say, the much bloodier Roanoke bar shooting earlier that week because, as Jaclyn Schildkraut, a specialist on media coverage of mass shootings at the State University of New York Oswego recently explained to VICE, schools hold a special place in our national conscience.
It is understood to be the first time that Eurostar's passenger trains had been targeted by people attempting to reach Britain, with a spokeswoman saying that service had been normal all summer, bar this week's disruption.
Nor is it a heavy tourist destination, barring a few weeks in the fall.
I don't say that because I saw him waiting in line at a bar the week before, but because he, like us, was a student.
