Remember to keep your abs tight, as if you were bracing yourself for a punch in the stomach.
If you're braced and ready to go, Romantic Works is streaming on our site.
There you are, braced to denounce one side or the other as evil, incompetent or both, and then you realise: oh no, wait – it's the system that's the problem.
But if you simply shrug your shoulders when a dish ordered at another table arrives at yours (or vice versa) and you are braced for a long wait (thirty minutes, on a recent evening, before a beverage order was taken), you will be free to savor the food, which is well worth the journey.
Even when you think you are braced for it, well, you are not.
You'll hear this about 5,000 times and so you'll convince yourself that you're braced and ready for the good and the bad.
If you're bracing for insults on Thursday, consider a recent experiment at the University of Kentucky.
"Usually in science you're bracing yourself all the time for something that doesn't work".
"The Truth About Love Tour," which stopped at Madison Square Garden on Friday night, is built on a suspension of disbelief, but maybe not the one you're bracing for.
If you're bracing for a test, there are two major points: grime's first motherland is likely Jamaica or England, rather than America; and grime favors fast, anxious tempos that rarely show up in American hip-hop.
