....For the last hour and a half have been outside---mostly reading in Riverside Park. Finishing up Wild Palms, yes, believe it or not, only about 15 pages to go. Also stopped off at Barnes and Noble but did not buy anything. Some good news: the Center for Fiction, my favorite bookstore in Brooklyn, perhaps in the whole city has reopened for browsing, as of today. Terrific! Can I make it out there tomorrow? Hard to say, will have to take it moment by moment---everything now depends on stomach and energy, Today, did not feel that I had enough energy to visit my friend Riley at his new barista job in Bed-Stuy, but that was because I had a rough night last night.
Hungry around 5:30, I walked over to one of the pizza stores on Amsterdam Avenue in the 80's and bought a slice of peppironi pizza. One slice, that is all---in the past, I would have digested it easily, then gone on to whatever play or movie I was seeing that night, then, one the event was over, probably need a snack or a sandwich to finish off the night. Not so any more. The one slice of pizza crowded my body, then set off explosions in the stomach, then, for the next 8 or 9 hours, caused me much discomfort by putting incredible pressure on my stomach. Did not need to eat anything until around 8 this morning. What is happening here? Do I have to rethink my whole digestive process?
And, of course, got very little sleep---which accounts for how tired I felt at certain times today. Or is that also because the red blood cell count has fallen? Never really sure. How much of what I feel is part of what the pandemic has demanded of me, and how much is what the doctors have found out?
Can't say at this point, but as the weeks continue, will have to explore it.
So as 5 o'clock approaches, I sit at my screen. Tonight is the first baseball exhibition game of the year--and while I am not thrilled about the way the short and improvised season has been put together---I will listen or stream some of it. Anything, anything for a change---for a distraction.
Will report soon.
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