There's a lot of other crap scattered around it. He laughs at me. Jack and I sit there at the table. He's got the mavsurfer website up, and he's filling in today's large square on a wall calendar. It's his log.
Every day is filled in with a version of the same stylized wave.
It's either higher or thicker, more tubular or closed out, choppy or glassy. Each hieroglyphic stroke means something specific. He works on it so that he doesn't have to look at me while he delivers the news. It's pretty hard to do, but Jack has managed to get kicked out of San Francisco State. Let me try that again.