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I work at an Art Gallery as an Assistant Curator.
Get up at 8 am.
have breakfast, shower, dress, feed my cats, clean the cat litter, pack my lunch
Then either:
a) go for a swim in the gym I go to near my workplace, for about an hour. It takes me 30-45 mins to get into town, and then I swim for an hour or so. I will then shower and dress at the gym and go to work, by subway, 10 mins away.
b) wash clothes, turn the dishwasher on, hang up clothes, fold clothes, make the bed, and anything else that may occurr to me while I still have time. Some mornings I do patent translation - something I do to make ends meet. Then I walk to the train station at about 1030, arrive in Lisbon at 1110 and am at work via the subway at 1130.
c) set my bags down and put my lunch in the fridge. Have a short chat with my coworker (only two of us here). Go to my desk and turn the computer on. Check my mail, then also my email.
d) Do whatever is set out for the day, could be arranging transports for exhibition works arriving, sending off for frames, answering emails with artists, the press, etc. Also managing the database of about 500 art works we have here, photographing any works that haven't been so far, checking nothing is missing, restocking our kitchen (for inaugurations), writing press-releases, updating the gallery website, writing loan forms, preparing contracts, sending out invitations or catalogues, you name it I do it.
At about 1400 I have my lunch. usually I eat at my desk and then resume work, or will have a browse around the net or in TFP, answer my personal mails and stuff like that. Occasionally I will leave the gallery and have a read somewhere on a park bench or quickly go and visit a nearby art gallery to see what they're exhibiting.
Lunch ends at 1500. I continue with the same sort of tasks as before, until about 1700 when the Curator/Director of the Gallery arrives and then I conference with him about anything that needs to be run by him first for approoval. The remainder of my day proceeds much in the same way as before. Work finishes at 2000 but usually I only leave at 2015 or 2030.
Then I either commute back home or get a ride from the Curator who lives in the same area as me (very useful at the end of a long day).
I arrive home between 2100 and 2130. I then greet my 2 cats, think of something for dinner, eat dinner, feed my cats, clean the cat litter, translate some more, maybe chat with my SO if he arrives home at a decent hour, maybe watch a movie on TV, yadda yadda and some more house chores. In bed between 0030 and 0100.
Repeat.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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