annoyed...

at this moment---missed a job at Friends by about 8 minutes---and it was given to someone in house---although a break after four days at Friends, would not be bad, something about this frustrates me completely. Also, had a job offer yesterday for today, which I accepted, only to have it rescinded a few hours later. First I am up and then I am down.  Yes, this will give me a chance to have a little more night life then if I had worked (it was a heavy schedule) but still, something about missing this job grates on me.
Should forget about it though, there still should be a lot of work for me in the next few weeks, already have five days booked (although some may be one half) ---truthfully it does not seem as if my popularity is diminishing. Should loosen up---maybe I will soon.
  Sunday, did not go to Bushwick---instead opted to watch some of the Jacksonville Buffalo game (a snooze fest) at Standings, where it is always good to see my friend, bartender Aaron. But I really did not stay long--wound up coming home and resting, and then going to the Dive Bar, the one on 96th and Amsterdam, where I was able to catch the last couple of minutes of the Saints-Panthers game---pretty exciting. Not much else happened, and I returned home, ready to start my week at Friends.
 That is pretty much it---just subbing--a little tutoring, and coming home. Stopped off at Wallace's the bar on Broadway and 148th street (actually there are now three of them on that one block) on Wednesday, had a nice chat with Jeanine, the bartender and met an interesting guy named Nicolas, and we discussed the world of New York.
  Read an article yesterday that a bar near Columbia Presbyterian is not having its leased renewed in June. It is a neighborhood staple---has been there for many years. People in the community are enraged---will they understand that this is part of the bigger problem of too much power in the hands of commercial rent owners? How much action will they take? The owner is Presbyterian hospital.
Will be interesting to see how the form of protest is played out.
  Tonight, a friend of mine, playwright Adam Kraar, is having a reading of his new play. He has written many plays, and one of them, Freedom High!, a play about blacks and whites working with each other during the summer of 64, at the training ground in Oxford Ohio, as they prepare to go to Missiasippi to register black citizens.  Itis a play that I think should have been produced. A great subject! At least for me. What does it say that no major company has taken an interest?  The subject, one that I feel is so important, seems much too threatening to them. Sad. Anyway, tonight his play seems to be more about Jewish mid life crisis. Its central character is a Jewish optometrist. Oy Vey.
Will this play be necessary? Well, the reading is free---should go to give my support.
 Will report on this and anything else that happens tomorrow. Stay tuned.