so tomorrow....

I will be subbing at Friends, what looked like a simple half day has turned into a full day that is almost non-stop from 9:40 to 3:10---actually there is an hour break from around 12 to 1, but I am very willing to submit to this heavy schedule. Will have to tell one of my students that I can only see her at four, instead of at 1, but she has to understand that that is the way it is. Or possibly I can move her to another day. Anyway, really looking forward to it...should be fun. Think I have the eighth grade twice.
Yesterday, a day without tutoring, some problems with structure, but ultimately things turned out okay. Decided to see the movie that Richard Gere made called Time Out of Mind, in which he plays a homeless man about his age. Very straightforward movie---some very harsh moments, not a lot of variety, so it was easy to get caught in its sadness, but still a strong picture of how a homeless man functions. Also great supporting performances from Ben Vereen and Kyra Sedgwick (almost unrecognizable, but then again, I have not seen her television work).There are moments when the camera focuses on Gere in such a way that he appears extremely handsome, so at those moments, some of the illusion of homelessness is muted, also, there is comfort for the viewer in knowing that Gere is not truly homeless, far from it (I assume) which allowed me to focus more on the fact that this was just a "role" for him, and not his life. Yet the soberness of the movie and its straightforward depiction of this very depressing world, really comes though, when I awoke this morning, I was experiencing the sadness and hopelessness of the movie (sometimes the choices I make for the night before, and the feelings that these choices evoke, carry over to my first thoughts in the morning). That was, of course, before I got the call requesting my services at Friends, which moved me into a different zone.
Plans for the weekend are firming up, Friday there is an interesting film at the Bushwick (still another) film festival. From the advance blurb, it is about a man looking for a former lover, who, finding out that she has died, tracks down her younger sister and begins a relationship with her--sounds like the kind of movie that I like, though who knows it could be kind of turgid. If I go, the movie shows in a space on Flushing Avenue, so I will be in Bushwick---possible to drop into Pine Box, or one of the other watering holes there, Saturday and Sunday there is also the work of friends of mine that I should visit.
So let's get started with the day...