What are you doing right now?
I am sitting on a pier at sunset watching a thunderstorm complex about 30/35 NE of me drift slowly east. The setting sun is illuminating the back of the anvil, and the whole thing has matured and is beginning to rain itself out. They got a heavy downpour up in Lapeer County from this one.
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"The Importance Of Being Earnest."
Classic... 
We're in NY, and tomorrow we fly to London. Our final destination is Rome.
You paint a lovely picture with your words...
Yeah, the Vatican City is in Rome!
But I'm afraid those hats aren't for sale, at any price!
And you don't want to be Pope...
I keep forgetting I might want to add the words Arizona time whenever I talk time! 
...what about the Western UP where EDT puts dusk at about 10:40 PM this time of year?
I think the Western UP is almost as far West longitude of Chicago as Chicago is West of Detroit. 
Rain....coffee...guests.
Cher
The tea is cold, my UI just ended (yesterday), my friends are useless, I live in an employment desert (everything for 2 sq. miles is low-quality retail) in the middle of the fastest recovering state on the East Coast, I hate it here and I have no place else to go. I feel like I'm about to end up in a McJob long-term and be stuck here even longer in poverty. I do some catering on the side to raise some money but it's too irregular to live on. (If I could live off complements I'd be golden--I got compared last month to Ferran Adrià. 
He's arguably the best chef in the world.)
So, off-chance...anybody back homeward (CT or NYC. Screw it, I'll go to any mid-sized or larger US city at this point) looking for a brilliant creative driven problem-solver who has held every public-facing position (either professionally or as a volunteer) in the NPO sector from community organizer and activist through development director and outreach coordinator to director-level co-head-of-organization in a consensus-run organization. Also, I've been through two start-ups including tax-exempt certification. I'm a published writer and a member of two professional societies (Association of Fundraising Professionals and Public Relations Society of America). Like just about everybody here on DU, I have campaign experience, both electoral campaigns and referendums.
(I figure advertising my availability on DU can't hurt. I know we have Career Help and Advice group but I read it and I feel like everybody there is churning in the same situation I am. We need a separate jobs board here so we can leverage our collective DUness to hire each other. I'd hire off here if I were in a hiring position.)
I haven't even finished it yet but it's an inspiration. It also tells the stories of people in "employment deserts" who have figured out income-making projects without having to go to an office.
Making a Living Without a Job by Barbara Winter
Cher
She teaches you how to set up "profit centers," so that you don't become dependent on any one source of income. Your catering could be one profit center, and you'll probably come up with others.
My life is sort of set up like this. I have...hmmm...3 profit centers now, and I am setting up a 4th one.
If one falls through, another can carry you until you get a new one.
Best of all, the things you set up are fulfilling and interesting to you, as opposed to helping someone else fulfill their dream.
Cher
With a guest pup dog sprawled on my computer room floor and a purring black cat on my shoulder. Sipping a cold raspberry tea.
Watching a movie.
Trying to get over working too hard in my gardens yesterday.
Cher
12+ hours after you asked, drying off after a run through rain in MD/DC, listening to http://www.weta.org/fm/listenlive Faure now, and finishing my first cuppa.
