interesting developments

[flea]

1. My German-born and -tempermented landlady rocks. mr. flea spoke to her yesterday about how we were wanting to put a vapor barrier in the crawl space, and would she be willing to deduct the materials cost from our rent, and she has engaged her handyman to do the work next Saturday at no charge to us. How glad are we not to be doing this ourselves? Thiiiiiis glad!

2. I put an ad out today onto my 2 parents listservs (neighborhood and looniversity) because we need a summer fill-in to make the nanny-share work. (Rich Family is pulling out because S is on a 9-month appointment now - and somehow it is my responsibility to find a new family who wants summer care only.) In the 4 hours since I posted I have had 3 nibbles. Heh. This is making me very hopeful.

3. Chewing on applying to be the "library fellow" at the Looniversity's humanities institute seminar for 2005-06. Would involve a research project (not sure if required to be library-job-related) and up to half-time leave from normal job. Would be intellectually stimulating and fun - sort of playing with scholars and being (from my perspective) fake-scholarly (which is to say, I have always been a dab hand at scholarship in an area I don't give a damn about - I wrote great English papers in college and wowed my Euripides prof with a paper on the verb luo in Bacchae. It's the not-caring that makes it work). Topic is one of interest to me in my former academic life. Would, unfortunately, not involve any increase in pay as far as I can tell.

Comments

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

You should totally do the library fellow thing. It sounds like it'll be fun, plus it'll look great on your resume.

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

Dude! Totally apply, the fellowship sounds neat!

Any chance all these nibbles could mean a different family to share with instead of the irritating one?

[orthoepy.livejournal.com]

I am also with the *apply!* You'll meet cool people, which is always good.

Also, someday karma is going to bite Rich Family in the ass. They sound like very unpleasant people.

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

Sadly, Rich Family is actually very nice. Well, the husband is sort of an Eeyore, but S is very nice, and nice kids. They are a leetle self-centered, but not horrible, or else I would never have taken up with them in the first place.

If we're being Fair and Balanced, they're not even that rich. They're just Richer Than Us. Hence my occasional seething jealousy.

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

I have certainly thought of it, but they found the nanny, and are the full-time family in the share, so I can hardly go poaching the nanny and keep respecting myself.

[orthoepy.livejournal.com]

Don't ruin a perfectly good rant-target by being all fair and reasonable and self-aware! :-)