Early Sunday morning

First "day off, as my student in Jackson Heights has canceled. Nice to have a free morning, but actually enjoy the trip into Queens on the 7, and then the short walk to my student's apartment house. Jackson Heights seems so separate---different from anything in Manhattan. A very nice feeling as I walk through there. So a little less structure, a little more "free time" a little more restlessness as I try to fill up the time. Just finished a long week with about 14 hours----another begins tomorrow. I love the focus that tuturing demands of me---at best times feel very strong and creative while doing it. The rest of my life is more "fill in", you might say---passing the time before I leave for the library in the early afternoon, and then coming back to the apartment and either resting or "chilling" or something else by myself. Could it be better? Possibly.

The plan for today: An afternoon visit to My Brother's Bar---a bar on Avenue C and ninth street, which my friend Bob, has just opened. Hope to just sit there and watch the first playoff game-maybe some good conversation at the bar as well. The bar opened last Saturday, and when I visited on Sunday, Bob was really happy to see me. I think this is finally a place, post pandemic, where I can just "be", that is visit, and if I just want water or a seven up, it will be okay. Still, far away from my apartment, but as we get closer to Spring, and the warmer weather, it should be easier to get there. Looks like the two or three blocks surrounding the bar are quite a "strip' where other bars exist as well. Maybe before I arrive, will wander up and down Avenue C (remember when nobody wanted to go there) and check out the scene.

Reading mostly short stories (nothing special) and the Mike Nichols biography which seems to delve into every nook and cranny of his life. A really high powrered guy, can see my "soft passivity" as no match for him. Can only read one or two chapters at a time, since the events are always so supercharged---need a break from all that aggresiveness.

that is all for now, will report soon.