quite a weekend......

but no work today---well, I am tired....but Saturday evening---in the grueling rain, making my way to the Schimmel Center---stayed there for about 25 minutes, lost a hat, but got out and made it to Reservoir---perhaps the oddest place to find theater people but----there it was---had a really nice conversation with a guy named Jeff Beale, who is in a Master Builder project around the corner--will try to see it, then yesterday, after tutoring Jesus, took the Friends group on a trip throught Jewish Williamsburg and Bed-Stuy, and then lunch with Pam, and later joined by her friens David and Jason---good conversation all around, had a nice talk with the owner of Black Swan, the bar restaurant we were at, he invited me to come back, seems like a very nice guy, like the place, could see myself spending more time at it, then down Bedford to Dekalb, passed another coffe bar with another set of young white people, thought to myself that's nice---later asked myself: "where will it end?" Soon will there be coffee bars on Nostrand, Marcy, Tompkins, Throop, all the way to Utica? Is this the promised end....? Lots of thoughts about race and class, also the dissappearance of same at certain times. Certainly an exhausting and meaningful weekend, feel like I have grown alot....tomorrow at Friends, long but should be fun....maybe tonight at South Fourth, we will see...havn't seen a movie in a long while.....perhaps soon.

cityboy is tired.....

A long week---just when I thought there would be some down time, wound up working every day at Friends---this week, tomorrow and Friday atleast, lots of other things to do. Reading Paul Auster's book Sunset Park, very good, one of his best....wonder when I will return to Brooklyn to wander around, as for today, it looks like my session with Neal is on (although one never knows) then some hanging with Zak, and after that...wow am I tired, might go home and simply go to sleep. Not a big day tomorrow (yet) but three periods of eighth graders, well, atleast two are in the morning...hope to have some time for entertainment sometime next week but when....? Not to sure at this point. See ya.....

two new bars.....

last week, Freddy's on Tuesday, and Black Swan yesterday afternoon. It is an aimiable enough place, very nicely furnished, but if you stand outside it, you feel like you are in an all black working class neighborhood. Then you go into the bar, and everyone is young (or sort of young) and white. Makes sense...? How do you reconcile the two worlds, do you, is it necessary? Back to work at Friends on Wednesday, (not called for tomorrow yet, maybe) still rejecting DOE schools, it is obvious I won't make the around May 13 cutoff for 10 days, (well, not obvious, but extremely doubtful) . Long walks yesterday, followed through on my "adventure" quotient...but what next....?