Well! Apparently, when you work alone in the house all day with 2 dogs and an Adam, and don’t see anyone else, except on a computer, and maybe a once a week date with the neighbor friend, you are in a better place to actually want to talk and network with people! I met a lovely person through Zoom at an audition today, and also I’m wanting to send messages to the lovely people on the Diversity in Audiobooks panel. This is good.

ANNNND I am more inclined to go out and do stuff at night, such as hear poetry at a bookstore, or see a show. And I can’t wait to talk to people at that bookstore! This is unlike me.

Or is it like me, and I just didn’t know because I never had the energy before? I don’t have to get up early. I can mingle till the wee hours. And that’s when all the good mingling happens.

School has ended for now, and I have taken up my position once again in The Disco Booth downstairs.

I have goals, of course I have goals. Here them are:

1. Be amazing. ✅
2. Make enough money to cover health insurance.
3. Make enough money to cover a JCC teacher’s salary.
4. Make as much money as Adam.
5. Make as much money as Adam and me at the JCC combined, possibly adjusted for inflation.
6. Make F.U. money.

I am happy. I am so happy. It feels like I’ve gotten out of jail*–not because teaching is jail; the JCC is a delightful place. Teaching is just not my calling–but because I am free to follow my heart. I don’t I have to squeeze all of my projects into my spare time. And that gives me energy to do other creative things in my spare time.

 

*Not prison, jail. I’m sure nothing can compare to prison.