hopefully....

the President's boast that his ICE forces would escalate finding illegal immigrants starting next week was just another of his outbursts---I feel frightened at what a more aggressive approach by that group would mean in this city. Nothing in the on line news services that I have looked at adds to this. Will have to wait to find out more about it.
 Yesterday, went to BAN meeting--more discussions re anti-gentrification march which should begin in downtown Brooklyn according to the plan at the moment. Had a discussion with one of the members about discipline in a school whose staff she is joining. She got very heated when I talked about discipline and limits setting. Her is theory---I felt boxed in---I did not like it---this is someone I have a good relationship with---I was surprised at her vehemence in denouncing my vision. She left early so we could not continue the discussion after the meeting---I tried to not let it bother me.
  The second interesting thing about the meeting was that as part of the food, a chocolate cake was there (usually there is no cake) to celebrate two of the members' grad school graduations. My stomach does not really like cake, and there was no reason why I should have taken some, but it was there., looked gorgeous, and so I had to take a bite---and another---and took some scraps from the young woman sitting next to me who had finished hers. Could not say no to this cake. Is my stomach paying for it today?  So far no real problems but have eaten very little so far. To be continued.
  Tonight---returning to the Sci-Fi theater festival at Westbeth to see a project that a friend of mine, Jocelyn, invited me to. Also tomorrow night. Should be interesting---I wonder if people will hang out as we did on Sunday, or after if its over, I can just go my own way. That would be somewhere where I could watch baseball. Time will tell, will report soon.