Let's get to it!

All right, cityboy, must admit it. The doctor whom I saw today gave me some hard facts, and convinced me that this time, I must get a colonoscopy. I am seeing the doctor who performs that procedure on Friday---hopefully we can arrange for the procedure to happen quickly. No more demons knocking at my door---actually I am very anxious now to get to the bottom of all the stomach craziness that I am experiencing.
   In spite of the bad news, when I left the clinic, I bought myself an ice coffee around the corner (Columbus between 97th and 96th street) and very easily walked the 21 blocks south and three blocks east my apartment. No problems there. Will discuss with friends---I already called a doctor friend of mine who urged me to get the colonoscopy, but thought that some of the other recommendations that the doctor made were not particularly valid. Well, we will see.
   Remember the four reading choices from yesterday?  Finally chose to go back to The Mask and the Face. Glad that I did; I read the whole thing and found it more powerful then ever. Started fantasizing readings of it that i would direct---casting it in my head---as I used to do back when I was directing. Will something like that ever materialize? Hard to say, especially now. After Sarah reads it, I am not sure to whom it will go. Whatever---I found myself so stimulated and moved by it---amazing that the first time I read the play I was a Sophamore at Hopkins, and Professor Ross assigned the play---he was a great teacher who had luckily taken the class over from a fraudulent teacher who had died suddenly at the end of the first semester. Yeah, modern drama---that is what the course was called. Also read Mother Courage and (I think) Right You Are if you Think You Are, that puzzling play by Pirandello. Quite an introduction to the world of European dramatic literature, a world that still fascinates me now.
  This is where I stand at the moment. Will report soon.