Perceiving future glimpses

Dear Diary,

Before I hit the silver screen and become a major Hollywood movie star this year in Fox/BBC's production of Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd, or before I garner a successful publishing deal with an old school chum, I will have to turn my hand at something mercantilist, in order to survive. One must be a mEnTaLiSt referred by the Citizen-Subject Advice Bureau, in order to qualify to be able to go to the food bank. Oh well. In order to avoid starvation I am going to put into action a plan which has been on my mind for over a dozen years.

I am going to set up a business, telling people's fortune. This is something I have been doing for years now (whenever my music has failed me, id est when my instrument is broken or am under the weather so cannot sing). Alas, Lua astrology charges $80 for a natal astrological chart. I have the computer program needed to do this, and will offer her service for free, then, if someone wants a proper reading (runes) then I will charge them $8 instead of $80. This should ensure a decent amount of business, for a reasonable price. I think $8 is a fair price to charge, seeing as a reading takes only an hour. It is not as highly skilled as teaching the pianoforte or guitar, and certainly not as valuable. Music often lifts people's spirits, whereas rune-reading often shocks people, in my experience.

I shall surely be burned as a heretic, for mercantilising my prophetic gifts, turning to black-magic and divination, in the shadow of satan, not in the light of Christ. Too bad. I'm hungry. Needs must as the devil drives...

Here are some more photographs of yesterdays psychic spirit-guide archaeological investigation.