The girls are back from their grandmother's house.

[conuly]

I swear, Evangeline grew over the past week. I'll measure them Monday to confirm this!

Tomorrow, this is my plan. Doesn't it sound awesome??? Of course, now that I'm at the website I'm browsing through their camps and cursing the fact that I have no cash. I'm sure Ana would like this one, and nothing could be cuter than seeing Evangeline on ice.

This fall, I'm getting a real job. I don't care what sort of job it is (except that it has to be legal and safe), but I'm getting a real job.

I'm also going to see if I can get Ana or Evangeline any sort of scholarships to classes. Just one each for the year would be good, but... Ana especially is so gifted physically, she can't challenge herself much longer. And Evangeline can hold a tune really well, I can teach her the basics of piano but... *shrug*

Maybe some sort of work exchange thing. I don't know. How does one go about this sort of thing anyway?

Comments

[cesy]

You can sometimes get cheap tuition in music or sport by finding students who don't have much teaching experience - they'll teach for a low price in order to get references or get it on their CV.

work exchange

[houseofglee.livejournal.com]

Your majesty,

I hope that this current economy will give rise to more work-exchanges. I'm doing a work-exchange of musical storytimes in exchange for my daughter attending French camp, but that came about after my daughter had already spent one summer there. Also, the head of the French camp goes to my church. My as-yet unreleased storytelling video is also a result of a work trade. Here's the challenge though: even if it's an equal value exchange, there is a tendency for paid work to receive priority over unpaid work. If someone is amenible to a work exchange, it's a good idea to get expectations, parameters, etc. down in writing.

Re: work exchange

[conuly]

1. That's a good point, thanks. I'm not always good at remembering stuff like that, and whatever I do will, at the age of 26, be my first "real" job. (Watching my nieces, though useful and teaching many valuable skills, doesn't count because it's within the family. No resume or anything.)

2. Technically speaking, the empress of the universe thing is an old, old in-joke - so old that come to think of it, I don't think most people reading this are actually in on anymore! It certainly predates this LJ by a couple of years. (And now, all of a sudden, I do feel old.)

Re: work exchange

[houseofglee.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm 37, and a friend of mine and I still on occasion refer to each other as "Your Majesty, the Empress of Green" (me) and "Your Grace, the Dutchess of Cardigan" (her), which began 12 years ago.

I hope all good things for you in your job quest.

Re: work exchange

[conuly]

Oh, you can call me whatever you like, I'm not offended or weirded out or anything. But in the past some people have taken it way, waaaaay too seriously*, so I like to settle these things from the start, if that makes sense.


*I say I learned all my social skills after I learned to type. This is actually true, but it means that I learned them largely through participating in flamewars. I try now to pretend I'm more grown-up than that. But anyway, yes, once people are in the middle of a good flame they'll take jokes like the Empress thing and act like they think you mean them seriously.