When it rains, it pours. After all my kvetching I have ended up with a consulting gig, a part-time job, and a two-week adventure…all in the weeks leading up to a six-week run acting in a world premiere play, which overlaps with my directing a Christmas hullaballoo and rehearsing to appear in another. Type A habits die hard.
The consulting work is for a colleague elsewhere in our great state of Tejas and will be six glorious days of flashbacks to my former life…enough time, I think, to let me know whether the universe is extending me an invitation to hang out my Warwick Philanthropy Consulting shingle once more…or simply making a peace offering for how it’s put me through the wringer for the past eight months, causing me to question my value as a sentient being taking up space on this planet.
The part-time job is a great opportunity with the local Children’s Advocacy Center, which provides intervention and therapeutic services to child abuse victims and their non-offending family members. I’m the new volunteer manager and will be recruiting and training all sorts of good folks to greet families, mentor parents, make presentations, staff events, sew quilts and pillows, and much more. I am really looking forward to it…even though I have never done it before, I’m a quick study and am ready to learn new things. And it will be nice to have some money of my own again.
The other thing I’ll be learning is how to be a script supervisor. I’ll be playing that role - as well as a small one on-screen, LOL - for a horror movie about fire ants shooting here in October. It will be two weeks of intense work doing something I’ve never done before. I’m sure it will be stressful, but also fun and validating.
I’m still swirling around in the teacup. But, at least for today, I’m not dizzy.