And that is exactly what Hempel was planning to do as he and his Harvard team entered The Game, the stone-cold concrete stands, chilled by fall air, quickly filling.
Business travelers are good at coping with anything, so the usual advice stands: chill.
But we could, it seems safe to say, all probably stand to chill the fuck out when it comes to fantasy.
As we stood in a chill wind on Sixth Avenue, he was obviously uncomfortable discussing it, but he is a storyteller, and he eventually launched into a narrative.
In front of a makeshift memorial of candles, messages of support and photographs, a man wrapped in a red blanket against the winter chill stood rock still with two fingers raised in a peace sign.
A sober Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, just days from leaving office, stood in a chill wind yesterday and announced the opening of the first public viewing platform at ground zero, encouraging all Americans to visit.
Downriver, on both sides of the harbor, many thousands more stood in the chill under gray skies grown dark, waiting for the two ships to pull past the Statue of Liberty.
In the morning chill, voters stood in orderly lines outside stone schoolhouses and canvas tents to cast ballots in the first election under the new system.
Residents of the Bedford Pines apartments in Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward neighborhood stood outside in the chill wind, crying and hugging each other while they watched a four-alarm fire destroy everything they owned.
Many advocates for gun rights, who stood in the morning chill with signs reading "We Will Not Comply" and "Dictators Prefer Unarmed Citizens," said the aggressive gun-control being pushed by Democrats would do nothing to keep residents safe while infringing on their rights.
