Friday.....

morning, beautiful day, lots going on this weekend.
Yesterday, arrived at vigil sponsored by SOS on Lexington and Tompkins Avenue around 5:15, felt nervous, but greeted warmly by everyone there. Vigil and speeches lasted about half an hour. Interesting: the two blocks of Lexington between Nostrand and Tompkins probably directly center of Bed-Stuy, are all low rise city projects. Never realized that. Anyway, had a good talk with Heather, the staff social worker, hopefully will be able to visit their offices and help out in the next couple of weeks.
Lots of walking yesterday, since the plan was to get from vigil to Samantha's project in Ditmas Park. But how? Walked south on Marcy from Lexington to Fulton (Marcy's architecture much different than Nostrand's, by the way) then jumped on A to Hoyt Schermerhorn, turned around to take C or G one stop near BAM, only to discover that I had gotten on an A, disguised as a C---so there I was back at Nostrand and Fulton, needing to pee, and hungry. what next?  Another train ride? Decided to walk south on Nostrand, found a Connecticut Muffin---bought a bagel and peed, moved on to Eastern Parkway, grabbed a pizza slice on Nostrand and Union---finally jumped on 5 train at President for three stops to Church---then grabbed a bus going west to coffee venue where Samantha was having her presentation. Traffic on Church brutal, but got there in time, only to find out that Samantha's
ceramic project had been canceled, so there I was "all dressed up with nowhere to go". Did have some of the place's ice coffee---very good---but then what. Returned via Q to Prospect Heights and watched a few innings of baseball game at Plan B, not much happening there, then hiked to Bergen Street---had to fight with myself to get on the subway---hate leaving Brooklyn, but finally took to
2 back to the upper west side and home. Whew!
Not a wasted day by any means, really like the people at SOS, very touched by the way the welcomed me---anxiety I may have felt about participating was really silly.
Today, will see John, by Annie Baker, tonight---before that a lesson and possibly a visit to Fringe Central to pick up a Fringe magazine and take a look at the projects at my venue.
Will report tomorrow...