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Cityboy actually did something he has not done much of this summer, last night. He caught up on his sleep. Yes, amazing though it may seem, and though the exact time is not determined,  more sleep than usual last night and this morning. How did this happen? Well, after yesterday's BAN meeting, I felt this terrible sense of exhaustion. The plan was to go to visit my new bartender friend Brittany, working at a Dive Bar on 101 street and Broadway, but as I hit the subway at 23rd and 7th, I knew this was impossible. I returned home at around 10, and fell quickly to sleep--awoke around 4 with the usual energy that seems odd at that time, but then just as the sun was arriving, I fell asleep again---my body seemed really comfortable with this. So here I am---fully rested---it seems. A nice feeling.
    Also, I heard from my friend Tessa in DC, confirming our "hang out" visit a week from Sunday. That's really nice. I still have not finalized hotel or rooming house lodgings for the weekend--I expect to get to DC on Saturday, and hopefully see The Octoroon that evening---but that should happen in the next couple of days. No rush, there seem to be plenty of places to stay. I think it will be nice---and important--for me to just look at another city---another environment---another world happening---rather than NY. Anyway, that is what is happening.
   Today, there is an important debate between city council candidates in Brooklyn that I want to attend. This is a key district, one with a lot of gentrification, and one that has landlords south of Eastern Parkway salivating at the though that this neighborhood---ten years ago considered a place where no one wanted to live---is now getting a heavy zeitgeist report from the new professionals and also from artists who can't afford Prospect Heights etc. Wow---remember when Prospect Heights was considered undesirable? I visited Park Slope so many times in the seventies and eighties, and never would have dared to go on the other side of Flatbush Avenue in the area we now refer to as Prospect Heights. So it goes on.
  After the debate? Who knows---might return to Amsterdam at 95th street Dive Bar where Brittany is bartending  tonight or stay in Brooklyn, maybe eat at Soda bar, or some place like that. Anyway, we will report on all this tomorrow.