I had to do some bank work today. It is always a pain. I know it will take hours and may involve trips to several places and then there’s still a good chance that the task won’t get done. I had been editing Sur Sorath, the story of the musician Beejal who challenges Raja Rai Diyach, the king. I edited for a good 5 or 6 hours, cutting pieces down as far as possible. Then afterwards I will go through each piece and finesse the transitions over and over until it connects cleanly. It is fairly exhausting work. It is all pretty messy sounding until you get the pieces connected just right so the transitions are smooth and that takes time. The Sindhi version is starting to flow smoothly, but I just patched together the Urdu version so the transitions sound terrible, until I go through and work on that further. The initial task was to just cut the different sections of the music down to match the length of the Sindhi version. It is a complicated and tedious process. I hope I can pull it together the way I want. The good thing about it is that there is room to refine it further later, so long as I have the main bits down in terms of timing.So, after doing that, I went out for a walk to do some tasks. I picked up a roll of cotton for Umar to use on the beautiful king’s court background that he is sewing. Then I went to a series of banks, waited, waited more, got sent all around and got half of my tasks done. The other half of the work will have to be done another day. I didn’t have the energy to suffer through more of that for today.I picked up potatoes, spinach and tomatoes on the way home. I’ve been cooking to keep some relatively healthy food going and keep costs down. I have to ration to get through the end of this production. It is what I have been doing the whole time, but a little care now will give me a lot of peace of mind when I head back to LA.I spent a couple of hours cooking. It is a nice change of pace and I feel like it helps me get out of work mode for a bit before I head back into it. I’m trying to arrange things in Multan so I can head there and audition puppeteers and hopefully shoot a test which I can use to pitch to folks for their support in terms of the production of the puppetry portion. I feel like the pieces are lining up and I am trying to stick to a schedule that can help me get things done the way I want, in an efficient way.