We've a temp in. Steve. A playwright. He's attended the Royal Court and Soho Theatre's young writer programmes. He works at the Lyric in the evenings. Regard the state that I am in where I envy my daily juniors who earn more than me of what I perceive as valuable. It seems to be getting increasingly harder to stay here. A friend from an associate organisation is leaving. Happiness radiates from his every email now. He gave me the best advice I've heard in ages: "Keep looking at the door, eventually you will just get up and walk through it."