thirty-seven; Duncan, Red Peugeot Road Bike

We talk coffee shop connoisseur and he professes his preference for the lighter grind and thicker grit of the off campus café a block away.
Bright but not overbearing, he feverishly juggles notes, laptop and books, with a unique style nuanced by caffeine and intellectual adrenaline.
Though he transferred from Calabasas two and a half years ago, he rocks carless co-op living like an East Bay native.
Majoring in Philosophy, he humbly settles on my simple definitions for epistemology (“Like thinking about thinking?”) and metaphysics (“Like thinking about why thing happen?”).
Clearly he is well studied in being a student.