Dog Heroine

[robinmckinley]

 
Well, the car is running.  And the hellhounds are eating.*   And when I got to my Wednesday bell practise tonight I hadn’t forgotten everything after an entire week away.  (You don’t have bell practise in church towers during their Holy Week.)  Indeed we had a packed-out crowd-of mostly beginners.  So I got to be one of the Big Grown Up People Who

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[anonymous]

That's because I have two jobs. At first the translator gig was too unreliable. Until your work becomes known and you get your private clients who will come to you always you never have a reliable paycheck. So I have a job as an administrator / secretary / receptionist / general dogsbody / advice aunty in residence at an alternative health center. But as the translation got more successful I realised that you could go for days without talking to and seeing anybody, so I kept the other job for the reliable paycheck and the social aspects. Especially now with the use of email you never go out as a translator and for anybody with slight depressive tendencies that can be A BAD THING. I view it as balancing out two aspects of my personality: the social, friendly, talkative individual (which I am and can be just NOT ALL THE TIME) and the analytical, puzzle-solving former scientist who felt her brain was rotting away (your brain can't rot when translating and it makes very good use of my information unearthing skills). So my office hours are unusual in that they are afternoon hours, hence I can toddle off to concerts round the corner easily. The activation energy would have been impossible to hurdle if I were just in the house. It does get ugly at times when both work schedules have intense periods at the same time, but that is why it's called a balancing act.

Susan from Athens

[robinmckinley]

Ah. Yes. You'd told us about the spa before, I'd forgotten. I understand what you mean about needing to get out of the house; aside from the fact that I'm a bell junkie, bell ringing does that for me. It's the thing I do that Demands Other People. I too can just hole up and it's not really a good idea.

[spindriftdancer]

Yes, that's why I'm currently chugging through Harry Potter in French and Latin... it feels like my brain is beginning to atrophy...