since I posted--it is now about 4 A.M. on wednesday 3/22. Heat is off---apartment is cold--heater is working but it means more cost to Con Ed in a few weeks. Temperature around 45---just around fringe area for heat though i am not sure if boiler is actually on. Of course, cannot call anyone now---if no heat by around 7:30 will contact handyman. Disgusting!
So I am up---usually have a lot of energy in the morning---since the last post, I must admit my energy has been very strong--have had no trouble with tasks or being totally alive for my students---but when the sessions are over the body is very tired. So no plays, movies, concerts or operas in the evening. Reading prices on a web site that reports buying and selling of property in Brooklyn---prices have now exploded upward; I wanted to title this report: watching the world fall apart in front of me. Formerl middle class neighborhoods in Brooklyn---Kensington and Windsor Terrace I remember when those neighborhoods were practically forgotten--now have houses selling for textremely high prices. I am watching the city evolve through a sixty year lens, and there is an overpowering sense of enormous money at the top. As I walk through the brownstone streets of the upper west side, or think about parts of Brooklyn, my memory fades back to days of cheap apartments---accessability--how anybody could choose to live where he or she wanted. And now, this horrible aggressiveness.
What next? Just surviving through the next two hours, I guess. Avastan influx tomorrow morning--apartment cleaned soon (it really needs it) and continuing on the "treadmill" of my schedule. Actually that is not fair---I am getting a lot of satisfaction from my input to my students. Leaving the libraries feeling fulfilled. Well, that is something to consider---will report soon.
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