interesting developments
Nov. 29th, 2004 03:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flea1. 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.
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.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2004-11-29 09:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-29 09:34 pm (UTC)Any chance all these nibbles could mean a different family to share with instead of the irritating one?
(no subject)
From:no subject
Date: 2004-11-29 11:17 pm (UTC)Also, someday karma is going to bite Rich Family in the ass. They sound like very unpleasant people.
(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From: