here we are....

Thursday, after three days of work mainly with the middle school (sixth and seventh grade). Feel good, made some good connections with the kids in those two grades, got to like Larry's class (they were the official class during the time) a great deal. No difficult kids. Return to Friends tomorrow and then at least three days next week (Powell house trip). I wonder if any forums are scheduled for the day after the election---or will it just be teaching as usual. There is a discussion group scheduled today, around what I would call "perceived prejudice" , that my friend Jason is leading---sadly I can not attend, because of the session that I have with a third grade student at the library. Really sorry, would like to go. Hopefully there will be some more to attend.

Of course, everyone is thinking and commenting on the coming election. Only five more days, or so Yet I am sure the bars will be fiiled with guys watching football this Sunday, and the next Sunday, come what may. Very little interest in connecting a football saturated society to what is going on in America today.
 Saturday, saw A  Taste of Honey with my friend Robin, not bad, kept seeing Joan Plowright and the others performing at the Lyceum, that Friday evening in late 1960---interesting, Kennedy was just about to be inaugurated---lots of hope and promise in the air---and now?  Play does not have the strength that I felt when I saw it then, but there is still some good stuff in it. It is "workable" I would say. Performances were hard working---girl playing Jo had much less charisma then Ms. Plowright (then living with, and expecting the baby of, Laurence Olivier) but she got the sadness and isolation of the role Mother's role is more important then I remembered it---this actress was direct, made her points. After the play, got a cab for Robin, then walked down ninth, looking for a place to eat, finally settled on a "Greek diner" around 58th and ninth, had a not bad BLT---kind of liked the place---not much else to say. Sunday, spent most of the day at South fourth, watching football having some interesting conversations---was tired around 6, so after wandering around the Kent Avenue corridor from Metropolitan to North 7th (very cold and overdeveloped) returned home via the L. Had hoped to take the 62, and go through Greenpoint and some of Queens, but the bus took forever (really, I waited on North 7th about 25 minutes)  so opted for the L, which, of course, came immediately.
Tuesday evening, a good meeting at BAN---some interesting plans ahead---the Tuner Place protest was reported---sorry that I missed it, sound like it could have been meaningful.
Tenants meeting tonight, then back to work tomorrow---nothing after 3 planned as yet, may want to see something, but may be too tired. Will see. Saturday, off to Bushwick in the evening to see the Mad One's play there. Will report further...