Perhaps he's thinking about the crust. He's back in the kitchen making crust corrections as his guests talk around his pre-occupied form. He may be the best cook alive. I peeped under my bed this evening. They clean the house just as you would expect 20-year old guys to clean.
Vacuum cleaners run briefly.
Under my bed there is a quarter inch of dust, a scattering of downy feathers and one un-opened condom in a bright silver wrapper. Perhaps, this is my mint. This is what Colonel Easom told me across the dinner table tonight. He's walking the AT to raise money and awareness for the Memory Tree Foundation . He's wiry, intense and fast-talking.