one more day....

of the cold, I hope it will be all over by tomorrow, well at least it will be around 20, which should seem completely balmy. Not much else to report. Yesterday, decided not to go far from the apartment and after some deliberation, a bar scene was not what I was in the mood for. Instead, I opted for the Greek diner on Broadway and 95street---had my blt and coffee-while reading an interesting set of articles about the Madoff crisis of ten years ago. It is all in a Vanity Fair anthology about the 2008 crash. Of course, one can read it with a decent amount of irony now, since wealth has returned in the past few years with a vengence. A brownstone in Stuyvesant Heights is now going for over 2.5 million. What does that say and what is that doing to the neighborhood?  So I read.
  Tonight, hope to find a tv to watch what i feel is the most competitive and interesting of the four wild card games in the NFL. Had hoped to begin with the first one that starts at 4:30, but might need to go home and rest for a while. Have been all over Manhattan already (it is a little after 2) as the library where I planned to meet my student was not the one which her mother had figured. The result, running around to a different library in this brutal cold---still it was worth it, because the ten year old whom I work with is so nice. Will continue at this library, it is near the epicenter of Washington Heights, and hope that when the weather is more feasible, I can take some interesting trips in the area.
 Friends begins again on Monday--no idea if I will be called or not. Will report on the rest of the weekend either then or the next free day.