It's Tuesday....

and quite a bit has happened. Two days of work at Friends, the events (TEAM benefit, Passover with the Baum's, Sybil's project at Cultural Center) Lots of moving around.
 Most interesting day perhaps was Sunday. Morning free, then decided to go to Cobra in Bushwick, stayed there around an hour, left with  second Chocolate muffin in my tummy, needed desperately to walk off all this sugar. Walked over to Hart Street, thought I would stop and browse at a bookstore on that block called (no irony) Molasses---could not find it, however, and continued towards Broadway down the seven or eight block grid that we call Bushwick. Not clear what to do at Kosciosko and Broadway, but found myself on Malcolm X boulevard, and decided to take Utica Ave. bus to parts unknown. That turned out to be Eastern Parkway and Utica. Got off, decided to walk west (towards Grand Army Plaza and the Library) but as I was standing on said corner, noticed the line for the 14 bus, one that begins on the Parkway and Utica, and goes straight to the epicenter of Brownsville and East New York. Line was all black, most people looked incredibly poor, could not remember when I saw such a mass of poor people as I had there, and I move around the city a lot. Really shows one how cut off parts of the city are. For myself, I walked west on the Parkway to Nostrand (quite a walk---first two blocks seem residential and mostly black---do not look gentrified---and then the neighborhood becomes Hasidim City)  Lots of new buildings in the Jewish area, turned north on Nostrand, passed a few new coffee places (one right next to the other) and used the bathroom (and bought a coffee I did not need) on a place further north. Crossed to Rogers and then Bedford on one of the avenues closer to Fulton, awed by the beautiful brownstones that lined some of the side blocks; was this really once an area where people did not go out at night? Unbelievable. Bought a belt in the bargain store on Fulton off Bedford, and took the bus to BRIC--which is always opened and a great place to relax and use the bathroom. Toyed with seeing Kubrick's The Killing, but too tired, returned home by a somewhat circuitous route (too complicated to describe here) and rested before yesterday's day at Friends.
Not much else to say, today already have three tutoring sessions planned, and will let night happen as it comes---finally baseball season so any bar should have a game on for most of the evening. May go and hang out with Merlin at South Fourth if energy allows it.
Finally, Sunday reinforced my love of wandering though the city, particularly Brooklyn, looking forward to many more trips as the spring progresses.