exhausted after....

yesterday's stint at Friends---two rambunctious classes that needed constant supervision to keep on track. Then a session in Harlem---came home around 7. sleeping at about 8. Actually slept better than usual. Still, my body is just coming around---have eaten very little should take in more as the afternoon wears on.
Tonight I join the picketers outside a real estate summit in downtown Brooklyn. Always ambivalent about joining them, however I am a member of BAN, and it is important for me to give my support.
Actually this summit is for self-starters as well as real estate people. I think a lot of them (the self starters) don't see their role in displacement---kind of a tunnel vision that they need to be shaken from. Perhaps tonight will make them more aware.
On Monday, went to BAN meeting to make signs for this rally but no one was there but Chicago (a young woman visiting from Japan) and myself. Had a nice talk with her---I had known her previously but it was difficult to talk to her because she was just learning English. On Monday she was much more fluid in her speech, found that it was easier for her to understand me and comment back--she was going to watch the debate (enough about that) at a bar on Fourth Avenue in the slope, and I could have come back with her but felt turned off by the whole thing. also she said that the bar would be packed---and I did not want to be with a bunch of shouting people (especially in a neighborhood like Park Slope) crowding each other out. Anyway, will probably see her again tonight so we will see what happens after that.
    No real plans for Monday after I walked Chicago to the F station on 23rd street, so that meant some wandering. Stopped off at the Greek diner on 23rd approaching seventh---had a tuna fish sandwich which, along with tax and tip (and no coffee) came to $9.00. Disgraceful! Where will it end?  If there is no commercial rent control in the near future, in ten years the same sandwich will cost $14.00. There has got to be a more active vision among people in the city. After that walked to the village--stopped off at Two Boots for a pizza slice (the sandwich just did not fill me up) and at some point returned home. Heard some of the debate on radio---turned it off while candidates were discussing their policies re policing----annoying because neither of them said that it is actually the cities and state governments that create and train their police force. All the president can do is use the "bully pulpit" or maybe offer support in a coming election to a state or city official in order to see a federal policy put in place. Hopefully a much more compassionate one.
That is all for now; will report on March outside summit meeting tomorrow.