a very different feeling...

this morning, when I woke up---none of the usual "languor" (not even sure what this means) but a sense of good feeling and accomplishment. Why? Well, probably because of yesterday's structure and its results. My first session with my student at the Library---he and his brother were in Mexico for four weeks and he gave me a nice report--then we got to work and I did some work with his younger brother as well---he needed a lot of input. Should be working with both of them this year. Then the BAN meeting---this one held in Park Slope, necessitating a trip to Brooklyn, which of course I really wanted. At the meeting there was a homeowner from Clinton Hill who told us that on either side of her small brownstone---large eight story apartments had been built and the effect was to virtually destroy her house. She is in litigation with the two developers, but it is a horrifying story---these developers in the city are like animals---they simply push away anything in their path. Can I help her..? Possibly. After the meeting I walked over to the Gotham Market to settle myself and check out some baseball scores. Watched the Mets being destroyed in the final inning of their game with the Nationals. I arrived right in the middle of the weekly Trivia session---sat down next to three young people. One of them struck up a conversation with me---harmless at first, simply about the Mets, but when he asked where I had come from I told him about BAN. I had no idea how he would react--he is white and probably living in a gentrified area in the borough, but to my surprise he was very sympathetic to the plight of the woman described above---and took some flyers for the upcoming march in Brooklyn. He also invited me to join his trivia group next week---really nice, I did not expect this---maybe that is why I felt so good this morning. Anyway, returned home tired, but slept much more soundly then usual--surprised that I did not wake up much during the night. Maybe that is why I felt so "up" this morning.
  Not sure about the rest of the day---body now feeling kind of tired--would like to spend very little money---hopefully can find an interesting book to read for much of the afternoon, then perhaps to La Flaca for the evening. Tomorrow morning I may participate in an action outside Brooklyn Housing Court to support tenants who are being harassed in their Crown Heights apartment. Wish me luck!