did not get to...

Cobra on Sunday; will definitely try on Thursday; spent rest of Sunday afternoon taking a walk on the
Concourse from Burnside to 170 Street, passed the streets that diagonally arch off the concourse, Weeks,
Monroe, perhaps another, all streets that apparently, while I was growing up in a more sedate part of the
Bronx, were a hotbed of the remaining communism of the late forties, fifties. Still can not get over some of
that incredible architecture, in what is now considered a poor neighborhood. As I said in the last post, things seemed kind of mellow, occassionally I would run into what you might consider to be a gang banger, but mostly it was just normal people, enjoying the Sunday out. Finally took 170st crosstown to Washington Heights, quite a difference, had a nice meal at a lunchonette on 181st, wandered around a bit then took A trian back. Too tired to head to Bushwick.
Nice day yesterday at Friends, then back tomorrow and Friday, and maybe more.
Continue my input into Home/Sick, glad I am doing it.....today off to Brooklyn for some coffee, not sure where, then the training at FUREE.

can't believe it is

two weeks since I last posted.....the Baltimore triip......? Relaxed this Sunday since I have three days of work this week, and the three for John B in two weeks. A little cash poor, but not really a great matter...
Had a great Friday night with the Assembly people, good drinking conversation with Ben and Nick at  Hotbird bar on Clinton and Atlantic---yesterday back again at JACK performance space on waverly ave.
saw the TEAM do its work---felt a little more detached, but that is what it is, arranged with Frank to visit
Princeton next Saturday afteroon and see The Select again, should be a nice day outside of the city, and when I get back.....? Well, we will see. Oh yes, I am writing this blog page from the Bronx Library on Kingsbridge near Fordham Road in the Bronx. Good trip to get here! Took a nice walk down Creston for
two blocks, then up Kingsbridge to the Library. A very calm sense of things here, same as I looked down from the subway on Jerome Avenue from 161 Street to Fordham. Ofcourse, this is where I grew up, not literally, but many memories of these parts---could have dated a girl from any of those streets during my time at Bronx Science. Life continues, maybe I will go to Cobra tonight, the place in Bushwick, a long trek from the Bronx to Bushwick, but definitely do-able.....

so here I am...

arrived at 11:00; tired, but have just walked from PennStation to Enoch Pratt---great walk! The city
quiet, very few people on the streets that abut downtown, walked down Charles then to Cathedral, where it ends, then found a beautiful, village like street called Tyson street between Read and Park then a nice walk down two blocks of Par, beautiful houses, city totally quiet, no sense at all of the big game tonight---still fascinated by the city---need more time, but glad to be home by tomorrow. Will return at some later date...?  All that walking and not hungry yet...amazing!

And so....

Off to Baltimore.....(tomorrow, atleast)!

some hours later....

i sit in Grand Army Plaza library---slightly more relaxed then usual. Did what i said I would: took 1 to A to G, to Daysha's coffee place---she wasn't there, but they had a great chocolate chip cookie, really soft will melt in one's mouth. Wandered down Greene Avenue from Bed-Stuy to wher Fulton eliminates it---right near BAM. Beautiful brownstone blocks, some in Bed-Stuy; some in Fort Greene- Clinton Hill, whatever. Wonder what the story of those blocks is; is there someone who could tell the last forty, actually fifty years of a street in Bed-Stuy, fastly gentrifying. Would be  an amazing story. Anyway, here is me in the library---how should I use this free time?
Would like to write---what....short story, really short story, the one about your friend, "Bradford" and his ability to get women to spend time with him, and his subsequent demise. How would you bein:
It was the mid-sixties, and I met him, the way I met many people my age at that time, my parents, who were teachers in the school system, , knew his parents, or friends of his parents, and they heard I was looking for a roomate for the summer in Baltimore, he seemed just the right fit.
I had one more course to take before I graduated, I had formally graduated the year before, then spent the year traveling around, but to truly get my diploma, I needed this one course. He was a little younger then I, down to take a few courses for the summer.
To be continued, already seeing how hard it is to do this---determination, do i have it?
What about the rest of the day?  Another voyage, further south, like around Ocean Avenue---then give that Baltimore bar a chance. And after that....?

Covention is a success....

and I am pleased that I worked hard to help it be so. Worked at registration table from 11 to 4; steered people in, got a reporter talking to a FUREE delegate and a some angry community members. too tired to join the march, though it sounded great---loved the energy and enthusiasm that I saw from people beginning on the march.  Instead, walked down to Brooklyn Heights, found myself on the Promenade, havn't been there in a while, walked very peacefully from Pineapple Street to south end of Promenade on Remsen. Felt very relaxed.
decent day yesterday, visited with Susan at Cobra, then saw Siobohan's show on 30th street, she did well.
This morning---no call, felt very restless lots of energy but no use for it---depressing, have future dates but not much for this week---have to fill days, not the easiest thing to do. Energy, energy.
This afternoon, after this visit is finished, will probably go to Brooklyn and visit Daysha at her coffee shop among others.
Want to find new things--not so easy--could go to film festival today, but want to sit on money.
Lots of other stuff this week, will see how it turns out, maybe these things will calm me down.