Nice day....

no work at Friends, so day is again, mostly mine. Plan is to definitely try to "penetrate" Bushwick Starr's performance of Claire B's play---should be there about 6:45 after a session in Manhattan. May also stop by BAM to see if I can get a ticket for Henry IV part 2, for one of its available Saturday evening performance. Having not secured inexpensive tickets to the rest of the four plays earlier, this seems to be my only option, as it is the only one of the four that seems to be not selling tickets well.
Not sure if I really want to see all four, for, if I hate the acting in one, would be gruesome to have to watch the other three. So this play, the least structured of the four, should give me a good idea about how the performances are created. Would have liked to see Richard II, a really beautiful play that was given a very pedestrian production by Druid theater last summer at John Jay. While at BAM box office, I will check to see if some upstairs seats are available for any of the other four.
  Meanwhile, there are of course, 500 other things to see in my two weeks off, plus my role in BAN, which is having a march that will take place on the second Wednesday of the break.
 Yesterday, first day of "freedom" turned out to be more about finding ways to destroy bed bugs that have been visiting me recently, rather then experiencing any "art". Of course the two pieces that were first on my list did not perform last night, and everything else melted into a "why or why not" set of issues. After library went back to apartment and slept a bit, then continued to hunt out  bed bug "nests", then also had to deal with a stomach that was not particularly interested in absorbing food.
Finally left the apartment at around 8:30, wandered through Barnes and Nobles on 83rd street for about a half hour, then as appetite seemed to come alive, headed north with towards the Dive Bar on 96th and Amsterdam, in the hopes of getting a meal and finding some company. Neither happened as the bar was packed---no place really for me---annoyed but left and after considering some other bar restaurants a little further north, actually decided to go to the Diner on Broadway and 95th. Not really thrilled about the choice, really thought this should be a "Bar night" for me, but options were scarce and there I was. Enjoyed a relatively inexpensive BLT, read my Time Out NY and headed home, deciding that a drink was not necessary after the meal.
  Kind of dull, you will have to admit, maybe just recovering from the onslaught of non stop work in the last few weeks, let's see how things turn out tonight, when options are stronger and probably will not be tired.