another day without work.....

and one of my sessions was cut---a little disappointed about that, I had challenged myself to get to know the material, but maybe Saturday.
Yesterday evening--finally got to a movie---Wolves, by Bart Freundlich---his son was someone I liked very much at Friends---there is some good stuff in the movie---camera work is good, and colors are interesting---I think the director seems to feel that every scene needs to reach a climax---so there are very few quiet transitions, which I think the film needed. Lots of basketball---the father is a little too much of an animal to be believable. Still, glad that I saw it.
Afterwards---debated between Cornelia Street cafe---a restaurant whose bar I used to know well, but where I have not been in a while, and old favorite, La Flaca. I chose the latter---it was quiet--the bartender was friendly and I had a few buffalo wings that were nice. Went home feeling good.
This morning, continued reading 4321---the Paul Auster novel. Just went through an amazingly well written section of the book, pages 638-656---which details in full, the activities and events leading up to the student takeover of Columbia University in 1968. Auster is so clear (I believe he was a student at Columia at the time) , as he details these events. All that passion and power among the students. Where did it all go? How did it morph into this political "passive liberalism" that we had until the election.? What about...? Anyway, I would like some of the more politically aware students at Friends to read this---I think they would find it very interesting. Is any of this taught as part of the "60's curriculum"? Who knows---I was shocked to find out last year that the three civil rights workers who were killed in 1964, were not taught at Friends. And yet the teacher there is very good.
    Auster's writing is really so skillful---how long must it have taken him to put together this novel which spans the years, 1947 to at least the early seventies. I still have about 175 pages left, and I really can't wait to get back to it.
   So what will tonight bring? Not sure---might be a good time to head to Brooklyn if I am not too tired. We will see....