at Friends: two periods, gone by 11:30. Nice sense of freedom---actually decided to see my friend Adam K's play tonight since I should be well rested. But oh, those full period days---ended yesterday with my body aching and returned home---could do very little in the evening. I took several walks around the block; that was it. Tomorrow, I have a full, but possibly not a very taxing day. Dancers Responding to AIDS is a dance concert that Friends holds every year---this year's one is tomorrow---I plan to come, but hopefully, I will not be too tired to attend. Then comes Saturday---I have been invited to a party by one of Friends' faculty---that should be fun, at first it was just an afternoon event, but now it bleeds into the evening, and that evening will be my only chance to see SEAGULL-MACHINE again---I promised those guys that I would return, and they are, in a way, my "family"---I really want to support them by seeing the project one more time. Will I be able to do both? Let's hope so, but that is the plan.
On the bus coming to the library, I thought a lot about Clifford Odets and his plays, particularly Golden Boy, and my favorite, Paradise Lost--a great play taking place in the Bronx during the depression, with a very large cast. Would love to see it done---well, something I could possibly direct myself, but where and how? The people Odets created are in some ways the people whom I inherited the Bronx from, and whom I knew, or appeared to know growing up. Strange at how long a time ago that was. Remembering ingenues and young serious actors whom I watched and admired as a teen, now playing very old people. Have to figure this out.
Anyway, that is the plan for the next two days---will see if I can sustain enough energy after the full day tomorrow to attend the dance concert, and how Saturday plays itself out. Will report soon.
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