e-mail from fringe did not come completely through--nevertheless I think that I was able to read all of it---just the codes for opening the i-pads and the i-phones--should be a lot easier than I conceive.
Just received a request for another tutoring session on Tuesday---should be a heavy day for me---three students, a visit to venue 11 early in the morning (but no problem since I am up very early anyway), and then the meeting with BAN---and then maybe a fringe show. Long day.
Yesterday: morning restlessness gave way to a very solid lesson with Yasaly---she also brought her older (by a year) sister Emily along. Very pleased to see Yasaly pointing out to Emily how she missed an "ed" at the end of the word "overwhelmed". Seems like all the work that we have done and the time that we have spent together has really registered on her---a very fulfilling moment.
Returned home, slept a bit then off to the BAN meeting---good work by all as we discussed possibilities for the action on the seventeenth---got some interesting news about the privatization of some NYCHA houses that have already been sold to developers. Good group, glad that I am part of it.
Continued on to the Fringe opening party at DROM on Avenue A---stayed about an hour. Most people there were I assume, actors from the plays being presented. A few conversations but really very little contact. Left around 11:30---stopped off at Two Boots (the original) and had a really distinct piece of Pepperoni Pizza---then returned home via the F.
Before BAN meeting stopped off in Chelsea Library---decided to take out Vivian Gornick's memoir, The Odd Lady and the City. Glad I did, some remarkable insights about figuring life out when one is in one's early sixties or seventies. She writes very sparse and beautifully. I can identify with much that she writes, unfortunately there is absolutely no political perspective in the book. I know that she was not shooting for it, but for all her sincerity and truthful insight---it seems to me like an avoidance. Have read about half of it, looking forward to experiencing the rest of it on my travels through the city today.
That will be all for now...fringe is beginning without me---can I bear it...? Well, I will have my moments beginning Wednesday--will report on tonight's adventures
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