in a strange spot.....

as I sit in the Lincoln Center Library this morning---this is a completely free day---no sessions this afternoon----and though my mind offered me a few choices far from the apartment, I find myself at this library again.  Perhaps a little tired from all of yesterday's activities, but wonder if I can take advantage of my free time and move a little more around the city. I am always finished with coffee around 8---this means a two hour wait time until the first possible library opens up. That is when I got restless. Well, let's see what happens next week. Have to pick up my laundry anyway after this session and then should get back to reading the Siri Huvstedt novel that is affecting me so much.  Will have time to kill before going to Abrons Arts to see Pathetic---the play of the evening.
  Yesterday---attended the after party for the Friends faculty at Brazen Fox--kind of fun--said good by to many people that I see most of the fall, winter and summer, and had some good conversations with many people. Yet I left feeling unsatisfied and a little out of things. Why? Not sure--will see  a few of those faculty members during the summer, but somehow I felt a little less belonging then I had felt in the past.
  Afterwards, as hunger approached, opted to go to the Greek diner on 17th and 3rd, rather than to a regular bar. At the diner,I watched the Yankee game, when it was over, I decided to that I would head down to the Metrograph movie house and catch a 9:45 showing of Lifeboat, a Hitchcock film that he made in the early forties that I had never seen. Could have taken bus or subway to Metrograph from the Gramercy neighborhood that I was in, but I decided to walk---and so I walked from 17th and 3rd, to second avenue, south on second to Houston, (by this time I figured I was close enough so I rejected a bus that was coming) then continued south on Allen (restaurants and bars packed, all the way through) to Delancey, then over to Ludlow and the final six blocks or so to the movie house. Glad when I got there---that place always makes me feel good and focused. Got my ticket to the movie---but the movie itself was a terrible disappointment---I actually left after about 45 minutes. Why? Well an interesting premise dissipates with obvious dialogue and clumsy character development. So I left.  Hungry, found a pizza place about two blocks away, then headed home by subway.
  Tonight the play, called Pathetic, which apparently is a reworking of the Phedra story--then will probably stop and hang out at La Flaca, which is only  few blocks away from the theater. Yankee Cleveland match up is an interesting one.
  Tomorrow, will improvise after two sessions in the morning. There is an interesting discussion at the Weeksville Center in Bed-Stuy that starts at 3---I could make it but will depend on what I feel when the sessions are over. No plans for the evening--yet.  At any rate, will check in soon.