slow day....

yesterday, culminating in my trip to Standings to watch one or two or three games---gorged myself on the free pizza (three pieces---much too much, remember that, cityboy)  and watched for a little over an hour---then moved next door and hung out for about an hour with my friend Erin, who is the bartender at the "twin" bar of Standings, Burp Castle, a bar with no television and soft talking.
Enjoyed my time with her---went over all the things happening in her life and some of the events that I have been attending---I had to "educate" her about the seven investigations that are plaguing the mayor's administration at this time. Felt good as I left, stopped off again briefly at Standings, but did not feel like picking up the games that I had left in progress so continued home. Slept well and am how here in library prior to a busy schedule--still feeling the after effects of overeating at the bar.

Once I am free, not sure exactly what I will do. This would be a good evening to visit the bar, Sweet Janes in Ridgewood--might check it out in the early evening, then return to South Fourth to hang a little bit with Lana, who will be leaving soon. That is one possibility. The others...? Not sure---possibly could fit in a movie in the trip, or if my body is not up to visiting Brooklyn, might just stay in Manhattan and do something there. It just hit me that tonight and tomorrow or the last two performances of The Taming of the Shrew at the Delacourt  bit doubt that I could get a last minute ticket, this is such a nice day, plenty of people will be picking up tickets in the line when they are released at 12:00. Not sure how I feel about missing it--will definitely see Troilus and Cressida, one of my favorite Shakespeare plays when they do it later in July. Intense and ugly play by Shakespeare, remember studying it in the course that i took the second half of Junior year at Hopkins, with this great professor, Laurence J Ross. Changed and enhanced a lot of my ideas about Shakespeare and definitely stimulated my interest in him (though it did not need much stimulation, I was pretty excited by Shakespeare already).  But that is later in the month.
 
Time to make reservation for trip to Boston---now that I have the bus ticket, should make a decision about where to stay. Are these trips necessary? Yes, need to escape the city at times, and long for a trip to Fenway Park. So let' s begin the process....