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Today is a very special day for me and I want to share my joy with you.
This summer was a difficult period. Some of you may remember that I never got paid for my last translating job and, coupled to that, no new work came in. My finances and I got very sad and desperate. A new job opportunity popped up in August and I focused on that. This morning I was informed that the job was mine. And here are the details:
There is an Art Gallery in the village where I live, the "Antigua Fábrica Noguera". You can see a shot of the interior here:

Though the village is small and rather distant from the main artistic circles, the Gallery is important and it used to hold exhibitions of artists from all over Spain and even some South American countries. It really represented a centre of cultural activity in the broader area.
The building is an old paper mill -one of eight in the village- that was beautifully restored under the initiative and loving effort of Gema Noguera, the owner of the venue and a painter herself. She also acted as a gallerist till November 2008.
Then tragedy hit the Gallery and Gema's family. Having always been extremely sensitive, emotionally vulnerable and chronically depressive, Gema took her own life last November. I won't go into the details of that, out of respect for her family and her memory. I knew her, I used to drop by the gallery just to have a chat and see what she was working on (her workshop was in the same building) and she even proposed I held an exhibition of my fractals there. Her death was a painful blow to everyone here.
The Gallery remained closed for months. Then, by the end of Spring, the family started negotiations with the local Municipal authorities and the Provincial Government of Teruel to reopen the Gallery under the direction of a three-party committee. The Antigua Fábrica Noguera was in fact re-inaugurated on 20 August with a collective exhibition of artists that had exhibited there in the past and (I'm proud to say) two of my fractals. This exhibition will run till 12 October.
But a new Gallerist was needed and a Public Employment Bid (is this the right term in English, I wonder?) was issued by mid September. Sixteen candidates presented our CVs, twelve were immediately deemed irrelevant and the remaining four were asked to submit an Artistic and Cultural Project for 2010. In three days!
I guess we all went crazy trying to organise our ideas and put them down in a coherent, convincing way in such a short time. We were interviewed on Tuesday morning and at eleven o'clock today the secretary of the local Town Hall called me to say I had been selected for the job!
Do I need to say I'm thrilled? Not only I get a job in times of financial distress but a job I love and I'm enthusiastic about. I start tomorrow. The Town Hall is taking care of the contract even as I write this, and this evening I'm meeting with the mayor and the counsilwoman on cultural affairs to discuss the details. Right now I only know I will be working from Wednesday through Sunday, 11:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 to 20:00 hours. Initially it will be a three-month contract but I guess if things go well they will renew it at the end of the year.
Oh my God!
I'll keep you posted on the subject. Thank you for reading this and for your precious support always.
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