Quite a week....

 a broken toilet handle, a door that does not squeak, mice in the apartment followed by a visit by an exterminating crew, not paid for by the managing agent of the building---at least not yet---a sense of sadness  frustration  at the way the apartment i hadled now---a visit to Friends to see a basketball game---three tutoring sessions yesterday, two of them I feel rerpresented my best---the other, a little vague, I should be more knowledgeable about some seventh grade problems---will try to improve this week---a new novel---and Superbowl Sunday---pre pandemic a "big day" for me---not so sure where I will be when this takes place today.

Found a good novel in the library this week---taking a break from the Atticus Lish one that I was currently reading. It is All Grown Up, by Jamie Attenberg. The central character--a mid thirties educated woman, living in south Willliamsburg before its upscale explosion---trying to find herself, not married, comfortable with sex  with men for its own sake---a voyager---makes me feel a little left out of "the party", of course, I don't drink, and many of this character's encounters take place after much liquor has been consumed. Writtin with great honesty and sensitivity---very vivid characterizations of the world she inhabits---strange that she live near South fourth at the time I began to be a "regular" there---but out paths never crossed---I wonder if she ever went to that bar--coffee shop. At any rate, will read it to its end---pretty close---and then probably return to Lish's book which, though well written, doggedly remains fixed on the same subject. 

Interesting documentary at the Film Forum---about a bullying experience when the director of the doc was in the fifth grade--some fifty three years ago. Apparently he interviews many participants of the incidents---now in their sixties---to see what their vision of the incident is. The public school they attended was in Sheepshead Bay, a part of Brooklyn that at that time---around 65---was fairly similar to the Jewish area that I was raised in in the Bronx. That is why I am so anxious to see the movie. It is playing with a narrative feature called The Playground---can I check it out today...? Who knows, but feel that seeing it could be meaninful for me. Will report on it if and when I see it.