cityboy mellows out....

Back to tutoring, good session with Noagh today, he is really easy to work with, his mom wants me to continue with him through the year, good to know, makes September's budget a little more easier, will be
able to do things, even if there is not that much work in the beginning at Friends. Should be working with
Michaela (Noagh's cousin) as well, maybe even this week.
Last night thought I might go to La Flaca, but was tired, after a long walk from Lincoln Center to 42nd and Tenth. Rested, then went to neighborhood dive bar on Amsterdam between 79th and 80 street. Had a beer and watched baseball---very serviceable evening---nothing special---today will pick up Cradle tickets, pick up laundry, then FUREE meeting this evening. Should be meaningful, afterwards there is the possibility of seeing Shadows at BAM. Shadows, do you remember the first time you saw it, Cityboy? Probably in early
1960---everything was changing then, you were sixteen in your last year at Science, went with Margo, later saw it again in Baltimore. That same year saw "The Cousins" by Chabrol. The ending of that also blew me away, totally different from the many other movies I had seen. But do I want to see it again tonight? Well, on one level, yes, because it will be fascinating to look at Manhattan in the late fifties---movie was filmed all over Manhattan, mostly, I think, Chelsea--very hard scrabble Chelsea, somewhat working class, bohemian, at that time. (But wasn't all of Manhattan, with the exception of the upper east side Bohemian?) Essence of memory, but do I really want to deal with it again, relive that part of my life as well, or is it just better to find a bar with a TV and drown myself in Baseball. Probably will not decide until FUREE meeting is over, will report on it tomorrow.