crazy day (but what day isn't?)

just got a call to sub at Friends for one period this afternoon---so why not? Expected a "quiet" day---with just one session. Now the session is pushed back and things will be a little more intense.
  Interesting weekend--two visits to Brooklyn since the last post. Saturday night attended fund raiser-party at Uprose on 22nd street which is in southern Park Slope. Interesting walk from 4th and 9th to 4th and 22nd. Fascinating to compare the high rises that now almost dominate the streets with the small antique buildings that are sometimes right next to them. Realized how much I enjoy just walking in Brooklyn. The party was fun---spent about 2 hours there---had some interesting conversations with other BAN members--good to touch base. Left "early" you might say, but was tired from the three sessions and the work of the day before.
  Yesterday, went out to Cobra to watch some of the Yankee game---left after about 4 innings with the Yankees comfortably ahead. Plan was to get to another fund raiser--this one for social justice group in Kentucky---that was on 15th street in the slope. But how? Walked through the Bushwick grid, from Hart and Wycoff to DeKalb and Broadway. Thought that then I would grab the DeKalb bus, it runs pretty often, and take it to where I could get the G at Nostrand Avenue. But the bus was slow so I walked through Bed-Stuy via DeKalb, all the way from Broadway to Nostrand---was not too difficult, past the projects through the streets with the new buildings, watching gentrification in action. Finally got the G and took it to 9th and 7th avenue in the Slope. From there I walked the 6 blocks to the house that the fundraiser was taking place in.
  This was for a social justice group that works with poor and disenfranchised people in Kentucky,  My cousin Liz, who a lawyer in Kentucky, had a friend who was sponsoring the fund raiser. Interesting to watch a fund raiser for social justice in a different state. Glad that I went---left and walked a bit through this now very wealthy part of the slope. But was tired, did not want to continue the day out, and too the G,A, and 1 home.
  Kind of relaxed today, did not expect a call from Friends, so this makes the day a little more frenetic. May simply be tired after the session in Washington Heights. Not sure about the evening, will report soon.