June 30, 2019:

We studied Capital at Jose's in La Jolla. With chips & salsa and Negra Modelo with lime.

Incongruous setting for our weekly meet. Golden sunshine, blue ocean, comfortably numb. Far from Newcastle and Birmingham and the dismal fogs of London.

All three volumes, in detail, chapter-by-chapter. My week to present, his week to present. We'd list the concepts with their definitions and their contexts within the whole. With Flair pens for underlining, two English editions for comparison, German originals for consultation. We're the real deal here.

He worked on campus, I worked around the corner, he wasn't yet married, I was recently free. A friendship I believed in.