last night....

did go to Jack for Xmas show ( a really short show, but fun in its own way). A good choice, many people I knew were there. After the performance, wandered around the hall and had good talks with several friends, all women, two out of four directors, whose work I really like. Nice place, Jack, always love going to Brooklyn, always find some member of the downtown theater group (for want of a better word for it) to compare notes with. Left feeling fulfilled, then looked at watched and found to my surprise that the whole event, the show and the conversations hadn't taken more than an hour and fifteen minutes, so here I was all psyched up from some groovy theater conversations, but now completely on my own. What to do, or really where to go from there. Around the corner the "Hops" bar was not crowded but for some reason did not go there. Hunger came on, had to eat, but where..? I was at  Greene and Washington and so opted for either bus or subway to Black Swan, on Bedford, right off Lafayette. Got bus easily, arrived at a crowded bar, did not want a table, like the bar energy, ordered buffalo wings, but only because least expensive salad was $14.00. (Where have you gone, Black Swan well prepared $10.00 Caesar salad?) So the wings came, watched football (NFL game of absolutely no consequence) and basketball (Knicks, but on small tv). Staff was very polite, owner stopped by and said hello, but really nothing happened, no interesting conversations struck up with other bar attendees. So we go from one extreme to another, the world at Jack, where I am welcomed and have many people to talk with, but alas, when the conversations end, my friends who admire me go there way and I go mine. I like Black Swan, am basically comfortable there, but very few conversations in the last couple of visits. Still, sometime will visit an older bar, even though I know it is a bit barren, then taking a risk on a new one. Anyway, stayed until about 9:30, then home via the G, A, and 1. Went to sleep soon after.
Today, it is time for the Met---would like to see the Rossini opera La Donna del Lago---anxious to hear some Rossini music that I have never heard before, want to let it seap all over me, as I absorb it in the Family Circle.  Yet today I received an e-mail from Save our Streets Crown Heights, about a demonstration around 6 at Dean and Schenectedy. Should really make that a priority, might have time to return to the Met, but it that is a stretch. Should I abandon my Met plans to show my support to an organization that I admire...? For some reason I can't do that, at least I don't think I can do that now.
Would like to contribute to SOS, however, and maybe I can find another way of doing that soon.
That's all---holiday moves closer, just reserved a free ticket for Dada Woof Papa Hot at Newhouse for Christmas night, so structure in place, maybe a movie too or a long walk. Will figure that out when the time comes....let it happen