reflections on a performance

With a few days separation and with the adrenaline finally out of my system, I thought it might be time to look back on my work at the weekend and see how I really feel about it.
I have to say it was good fun and I’m really rather missing it.  I normally hate being around people and spend as much time alone as possible, but it was so enjoyable I’m considering changing my ways. God, it’s like I’m writing ‘Rory’s Christmas Carol’ or something…
As a bizarre encore, I might be playing in a pub with the band! We were asked by someone in the audience if we fancied providing some Christmas Eve entertainment and we all said we fancy doing it. Whether a group who played a few songs for a theatre show could stretch themselves to keep a rowdy pub going for an evening is a question none of us considered at the time. Anyway, I haven’t heard from anyone since so maybe everyone concerned has seen sense and decided to leave it alone.
This whole experience has certainly stirred my interest in playing other gigs, though.
It’s also brought back thoughts about popping into teaching. Remember I looked at the possibility of schoolwork when I was desperate to get out of the supermarket? 
Hannah gave me a big hug after the show and said how impressed she was with the way I spoke to the children, and ever since then I’ve had a little snippet of an idea rolling repeatedly around my head. I think I’ve still got the info pack I was sent somewhere. Maybe I’ll take another look in the New Year.  
So in conclusion - this was an event I was talked into by my sister, and was really unenthusiastic about; and it’s given me the most satisfying weekend of the year, and led me to consider two separate possible career moves for the future!
Quite an amazing thing, really.

RC 14-12-16