a busy morning so far....

as i sit here in the Lincoln Center library. Made my unemployment application---picked up my check from Friends, sent out my rent check---functional, functional----now there is not much left to do, except prepare for the BAN meeting tonight (surprised we have another one so soon after the march, but I will be there)
  First day of the Jewish New Year, I have never been very religious---my family was very "Jewish secular" you might say. I have a memory from my first year i Baltimore as a freshman at Hopkins. This is the only time I have fasted---I did so along with a friend---another freshman. On Saturday afternoon, a beautiful, late summer early fall day, my friend Jeff and I walk along Park Heights Avenue (we probably took the 22 bus there), The street is filled with Jewish, mostly well to do families, walking to and from or standing outside the several synagogues that line the street. To me, in my idealistic and romantic 17 year old head, those images seemed totally beautiful. I wanted to be part of it. The avenue is regal and well ordained, no hint of what it will turn into around ten years later. Finally Jeff and I enter a synagogue and listen to the end of the Yom Kippur service. The rabbi is angry at the Presidential candidate John F Kennedy; I think for not taking the day off, or something like that. We finish the service, then take the bus back to Hopkins, at the bus stop we meet a middle aged man who by some odd coincidence attended my high school The Bronx High School of Science and remembers well one of the teachers. An odd experience.
  Yesterday, spent the day in Brooklyn---watched a lot of football at Pine Box Rock Shop,,felt happy there- then back to the Gotham Market. Tired after some long walks---at home by 7.  I have to remember, if I want to hang out with my friend Eric who tends bar in Williamsburg beginning Sundays at 9, I have to restructure and re plan the whole day---keep it simple and no strenuous activities until the evening. Will have to stop now---will report soon.