Hey, "two out of three ain't bad"

Was able to attend the Christmas assembly and the after party at Friends, yesterday---all aruund a terrific afternoon. Recognized by lots of faculty members at the Assembly---very gratifying---still, as I was sitting there, taking it all in, felt a kind of sadness for not being able to be "part of the community" more often. What to do? Is it possible, with all the tutoring that I have, to spend more time at Friends. Not really---and under what circumstsances. According to the  administration, or some part of it, I am not welcome as a worker (i.e. substitute). Still I have never received a written statement from the school that I cannot work there. Since I am always welcomed when I come back for an assembly or a play, or a reunion day, I don't feel like playing with that. That is how it stands now--can it chaStinge? Do I want it to?  At the moment, simply suspended in mid air. Still, had some great convesations at Little Rascal, the bar where the afterparty was held. Not much more to say.

So the third Friends experience was to see an off off Broadway play that a graduate of Friends was in. Closing tomorrow---I simply did not feel strong enough to go this evening. One more chance, tomorrow afternoon, though I don't think I will make it---I hate (for some reason) being at closing performances. The former student, a woman, is very talented and building a career in the city---I am sure I will have other chances to see her. I watch the cast lists on the various theater web sites like a hawk. 

Spent the "free day" mostly in the apartment, though I did get to Lincoln Center Library in the afternoon. Read, for about the third time the essay on Hamlet contained in the book by Princeton Professor Rodhe Lewis. The essay is extremely stimulating---helps me as I tty to "get at" Hamlet. Other published plays that I looked at , but none that I decided to take out. Currently reading a biography of James I of England, the King who replaced Elizabeth I. Shakespeare wrote his four major tragedies during the first years of James; reign. I should be reading other books about England while Shakespeare was writing his plays, but I have put it off somehow. What don't I want to know.

Longing to see a movie, but hard to get out in this really cold weather.  Also must obey the messages that my body gives me.  So tomorrow could be anything.