tired today...

after a "marathon" yesterday both at Friends and after. Lets begin with Monday evening--at the benefit for the TEAM, theater group--glad i went, saw a lot of people I knew from the theater community, and even if our encounters were brief, it was heartening to be in touch with these people.
An actress friend of mine, Jill, someone whose on stage work I find extraordinary, introduced me to her new boyfriend. He  is a "baseball person" who writes for MLB (the baseball web site) about mino league ball. With my solid baseball knowledge, we seemed like a perfect fit (ironically, he does not go to theater that often) and it was decided that the three of us would get together for a beer sometime soon. It will be nice to talk to someone who really knows baseball (as I do, at least in my opnnion), and Jill seemed really eager for it to happen, but I must remember to include some theater talk as well. In a way, that was the highlight of the evening---the event was held in the Caroll Gardens-Gowanus section of Brooklyn, an upscale neighborhood filled with brownstones, now probably selling for at least two million, but the streets are incredibly quiet--an almost eerie feeling walking through them, especially on Smith Street, which in the last ten years has acquired many new bars and restaurants. Some of them were half filled---it was Monday night after all, but still, it leaves one a little creeped out.But the evening was important---glad that I went--the subway trip home was pretty efficient, considering the late hour.
  Yesterday, accepted a job at Friends that ended at 3--three classes---then took the subway north to Washington Heights to the library on 160th and Amsterdam to work with one of my students.When that was over, took the bus about fifteen blocks to another student--amazing that although by that time I was physically tired, it did not prevent me from focusing on the assignments of  both of the students. Naturally I was 'dead' afterwards---returned home and slept.
  Scores of movies and plays available for me to see in the city--today I think I will have three sessions--would love to 'chill" at a movie after that but I am tired today---let's see how much energy I have when all the sessions are over--will report soon.