The day went very well, the kids were working hard because they want to do well in the camper tournament coming up tomorrow. Mr. Brennan talked about competition to the campers how it brings out the best and the worst in people. He said when people can overcome diversity, emotion, the elements its frees them to just win points and amazing things happen. Winning, hes says is a magical thing and ordinary people can do extraordinary things if only they believe in themselves.
We had a lot of phone calls in the morning from parent in the city who wanted to talk to their kids. Most of the kids didn’t know about the blackout so they were not worried, but the parents all had stories to tell, one kid said his parents got stuck in the subway and had to walk from Queens all the way into Manhattan.
I was an Idaho day today, hot, low humidity, very blue skies. It makes me homesick, theres nothing quite like an early afternoon day in Pocatello when the weather’s nice.
In the afternoon the kids played each other, the competition is keen and the kids want to play well tomorrow, this session is now racing to an end. I talked to Bevin and Kenny this afternoon at the net posts, about everything from old movies to which kids will prevail tomorrow.
I played right after work, Im hitting so well. I hit with Feinberg for an hour and matched him stroke for stroke. He is such a great hitting partner because he hit’s a nice deep ball and is very consistent. Kenny is an interesting guy, he can converse about anything, extremely bright and knowledgeable with a funny, witty sense of humor.
Pat and Bevin said something about wanting to get away, so they asked Marc Solomon and I if we wanted to go out to dinner. None of us had duties so went to a fancy restaurant called “Foot of the Mountain.” They have these great appetizers called corn fritters and they were so good. The food was amazing and it was fun to be away from the kids for a night. I had Shrimp and a couple of cokes and ice cream, Bevin had the same and it came to $6.00. I was afraid I wasn’t going to have enough. We hitched hiked there which was kind of funny because the girls wore very nice dresses, we got a ride with a nice family in a station wagon. Marc ate an amazing amount of food for a skinny guy he sure packed it away. Bevin and Pat got lots of stares in the restaurant and its because both were so radiant and beautiful, even the little kids were staring. We had ice cream afterwards and then Tom Sheridan joined us then gave us a ride back to the Academy. Marc and I swept and watered the courts when we got back and as usual I got soaked.
I changed and went to the girls dorm and watched TV until 10, then it was to the second floor of Fowle to watch Roger, Riley and X put together the camper tournament. These guys have so much fun and they take seeding players so seriously. Roger had his liter of coke and his radio blaring, he was listening to a Philly game from who knows where.
The Blackout is all over the headlines and lead all the newscasts tonight. Im glad I don’t live in a big city, It all makes you appreciate how fragile civilization is, a power outage and we are right back in the Dark Ages.
I guess the most chilling part of the blackout is the fact that Son of Sam is still loose, I don’t know how you can go out into the streets of New York with a lunatic on the run. The killings have been going on all summer and there's no way I would set foot in New York.
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