two days of....

snow, looks like that is what is coming up.  What does that mean for me---well, it means I will be spending more time then expected in the apartment--it also means that I lose out on some money that I expected to make from tutoring. I was expecting three to four students on Saturday---possibly I can see one or two on Friday. It is not so much making up the money (though that is hardly unimportant) but that I really feel one or two of my students really need the input. However, schedules oft he children whom I work with and their parents and relatives, (who often take them to the library) are hard to change---so we will have to see what happens. 

For myself, I guess it means that instead of checking out a movie or so, or having some coffee in a restaurant, I will be at home. So what will I do? Read, read, read, at least that is my visionw. The library on 145 street where I tutor has a new novel by Atticus Lish---I liked his earlier one--I think today I will try to check it out. Also, Paul Auster has written an enormous biography of the writer Steven Crane--it looks amazing, even if I have read very little of Crane's work. It is about 800 pages--Crane died at 25---a lot of pages for a short life. I don't really know how Auster does it---I would love to read it---or some of it---but it is a lot like planning to read War and Peace (which I have never read). How can you give yourself over to a commitment that takes so much time. And if I have time before this "noreaster" I should visit the theater library at Lincoln Center, and take out a few plays to look at. Still have not read Alice Childress' plays (I missed the production of Trouble In Mind at the Roundabout) --maybe some Shaw, and some part of me wants to read The Voice of the Turtle, by John Van Druten, a three character play that ran for several years during World War II. The typical "well made" well constructed comedy, I am curious to see if this "machine" still holds up. My favorite play of that kind remains Barry's The Animal Kingdom--well made, but very powerful in how it deals with human emotions.

Much has happened since the last post, too much to really describe here. After my whirlwind return to Friends, this week I have been tutoring. At this point, I seem to prefer it to subbing---I feel my immediate focus on my students is stronger then its ever been. 

Thursday morning---first day I don't have to be at the library until around 4. More space and time---will report soon.