turning down a job...

I have never done this before, but I told a teacher, someone who I like very much and who has always hired me, that I did not want to take her half day program on Friday. Why? Two students in the second part of the program are just incredibly hostile to me. They simply won't talk to me. They do nothing "wrong", but just the idea of being with them for an hour is very hard for me to deal with. I don't remember ever turning down a job at Friends when I was free before, but I simply had to express my discomfort. Hopefully the teacher will find someone else, if not, and I am still available, I will take it--I am sure I can endure it--still-anyway, that is where we are now.
  Yesterday, with no work was able to go both to the BAN meeting and the party for the wait and bartender staff at La Flaca. Very lucky that I did. The BAN meeting was well run---lots of plans for an action in two weeks--the party at La Flaca gave me a chance to interact with some people I had not seen in a long time---and to really express my appreciation for the warmth and friendship that the bar people have shown me over the past several years. Some great conversations with friends Sam (Samantha) Angela, and---amazingly I am blocking her name---and I had the best conversation with her. I left feeling very fulfilled, lucky that the restaurant was there for me.
  Did not get much sleep yesterday---the plan for today was to---if I did not get any work at Friends---attend the opening night of Pelleas and Melisande at the Met--but with all the action from yesterday, I think I will just wait to see how I feel later in the afternoon, and then choose what to do or where to go. Pelleas, conducted by Yannick, will probably be a brilliant evening of music and theater, but it is intense and its music, beautiful though it may be, is dark and distances the audience. Might not be the best for me today. So the evening is a bit of a mystery---will report soon.