Employable, after all!

After a fun week of reading novels, going on bike rides and other such 'free' delights, the novelty of unemployed life began to wear off, leading me to start three jobs all in one week. Unfortunately only one of them is paid (Waitress in a mellow vegetarian restaurant), so I will not be able to save up to buy a new bike. My current mode of transportation is a bit on the wobbly, life endangering side. Just a couple of hours the bike in question decided to collided with a fence, and scratched of the remaining 'Milan-tan' on my arm, leaving a smattering of splinters.

Anyhow, enough boohoo, my second job is stage manager for a mad local theatre company. (see pic) http://www.pointedarrow.co.uk/
This summer we are performing Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress: here is a scene that I love, because the 'Pit of Despond' is my second home:

Help: What ho! What are you doing down there old chap? It's not a pleasant place.

Christian: I'm trying to get to the gate over there, so that I can escape the destruction of my city and be freed from this burden but we've fallen in this bog.

Help: Tut tut! It won't do, it really won't. Do you know where you are?

Christian: No.

Help: You are wallowing in the mud of the Swamp of Despond.

Christian: Swamp of Despond? What is this mud?

Help: It is the awareness of how selfishly you have lived. Having left your home and set out towards the light, that same light is showing up all the things about yourself that you regret and wish to be rid of, and so you feel as if things have got worse, when you were expecting things to get better.

Christian: I see. Then things are worse than when I first began.

Help: No, no, no, no, no. Oh no, good chap. In reality things are not worse - it's just that your eyesight has improved and you are now able to see yourself more clearly than before - and that is a good thing, for you cannot deal with your condition until it is clearly seen.

Christian: So my eyesight has improved?

Help: Undoubtedly old chap. For it is lighter here than where you started. Here, let me help you out.

Eventually I want to direct my own plays, but for now this is a really useful experience, and fun too. It will be helpful preparation for my MA degree, which, incidentally, is more of a reality for September, As I graduated with the grade I needed to get in.
My third job consists of composing a fact sheet for a local trade, debt, and climate awareness charity, so it is back to the library for me. What a research addict/boffin I am.

Well I am off to clean some windows (our house is part-way becoming spick and span for sis-in-law Dallas, who is coming to visit Tuesday). Here is a beauteous picture of the Dal-Cat with her darling Dan-the-Man: