non-update

[danaeris]

Spent the evening reading over stuff from Spryte and then wrote her an email. After that I signed up for a second Au Pair site, and beefed up my profile on both sites, responded to the french family that already emailed me, and made some changes to my professional website.

I also ended up having a chat over IM with happypete and someone else he is friends with. During the conversation he mentioned the idea of getting an Au Pair for him and his wife.

I don't know how serious he is, and this is of course in the future, since they haven't had their second child yet. But although it wouldn't accomplish the goal of getting me to Europe, there are advantages to finding a fannish family that wants an Au Pair. Maybe I'm foolish, but it seems to me that while being an Au Pair, I would have the spare time to develop my freelance career to the point where I could freelance full time. Also, a period of concentrated freelancing might give my resume that last little push I need to start being the FIRST choice rather than SECOND for nifty jobs.

So, it's a thought that's turning about in my head.

Pete, btw, lives near DC, about 1-2 hours out from DC's suburbs. He and his wife have one kid and two horses, and the space for a live-in Au Pair.

Today, btw, should not have happened, or perhaps just needs a do-over. technodemon was unexpectedly let go from his job, which sucks both for him and for me and Carina, since in a few weeks, he won't be able to make his contribution towards rent. And someone that could be considered to be, by some loose definition, in the immediate poly family, was taken off life support and is in the process of dying. That's just a few of the icky things that are going on in me and my friends' lives.

Bad stuff, go away! Don't come back another day!

And now, it is WAY past my bed time. Nini!

Comments

'zoiks...

[happypete.livejournal.com]

well, at least I could end it on a somewhat optimistic, if unexpected, note. On the hypothetical front, there's a pretty huge DC-area contingent of Arisians, plus other fen and "interesting people" of all sorts. You'd have to drive or get a ride _ to _ it, but there's even a train (MARC) right across the river in Maryland that will take you all the way in to DC, with transfers to Metro, should you want to go hang with cool kids like vvalkyri, dcseain, etc. I don't know what it's non-commute hours/reverse commute service is like, though. Far more likely is just hopping in the car and driving.

The fundamental thing to consider--and it has its pluses and minuses--is that our "log cabin in the woods" is pretty far away from EVERYTHING...but people do manage to make it out here to visit, and we make it in to see people. That distance and solitude could be really good for writing.