Snow-flakes and cupcakes
Even as our cloudy fancies take
Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
Even as the troubled heart doth make
In the the white countenance confession,
The troubled sky reveals
The grief it feels.
- Snow-Flakes (verse 2) by Longfellow
Although only three full days a week, full time photography is very full on work - right now, I have a written assignment (due next week, Tuesday) a workbook (due tomorrow) two photographic assignments (due next Friday) and various other tests and such, which is why it is difficult to take on work when really that time should be spent working.
However, 4x5 cut film holders do not rain down magically and to buy one first hand is about $40 (although they are cheaper on e bay they're notoriously difficult to get a hold of and the postage prices are ridiculous).
So, I've taken up babysitting and pet feeding, the latter which I don't mind at all because it's quick, easy and I can get enough money to buy coffee at uni but the former has turned into a complete nightmare.
The older one of two girls was perfect but the younger one.....oh my, where to start?
Perhaps that, whenever we played a game if she ever felt that the odds were not in her favor she would storm off and have a tantrum? Or she felt the need to punch either myself or her sister? Or that, when I tried to put her to bed she ended up scratching me and choking me with my scarf (and again having a tantrum)?
Sweet zombie Jesus, the girl's seven years old and she acts like this?
It did not help either, when finally both girls were in bed, that the mother failed to mention about the heating system so although both girls were comfortable I was near freezing for about and hour and a half (I would have snuggled up in a blanket were it not for the fact everything was covered in cat hair).
So now, asides from a sniffy nose I have fingernail scratches down my arms. Yayers.
Although the mother tells me she gets this shit a lot and ended up paying me an extra $10 which was nice.
In other news, I'm gonna make cupcakes. Carrot cupcakes. Gluten-free ones with really pretty icing too! :D
Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
Even as the troubled heart doth make
In the the white countenance confession,
The troubled sky reveals
The grief it feels.
- Snow-Flakes (verse 2) by Longfellow
Although only three full days a week, full time photography is very full on work - right now, I have a written assignment (due next week, Tuesday) a workbook (due tomorrow) two photographic assignments (due next Friday) and various other tests and such, which is why it is difficult to take on work when really that time should be spent working.
However, 4x5 cut film holders do not rain down magically and to buy one first hand is about $40 (although they are cheaper on e bay they're notoriously difficult to get a hold of and the postage prices are ridiculous).
So, I've taken up babysitting and pet feeding, the latter which I don't mind at all because it's quick, easy and I can get enough money to buy coffee at uni but the former has turned into a complete nightmare.
The older one of two girls was perfect but the younger one.....oh my, where to start?
Perhaps that, whenever we played a game if she ever felt that the odds were not in her favor she would storm off and have a tantrum? Or she felt the need to punch either myself or her sister? Or that, when I tried to put her to bed she ended up scratching me and choking me with my scarf (and again having a tantrum)?
Sweet zombie Jesus, the girl's seven years old and she acts like this?
It did not help either, when finally both girls were in bed, that the mother failed to mention about the heating system so although both girls were comfortable I was near freezing for about and hour and a half (I would have snuggled up in a blanket were it not for the fact everything was covered in cat hair).
So now, asides from a sniffy nose I have fingernail scratches down my arms. Yayers.
Although the mother tells me she gets this shit a lot and ended up paying me an extra $10 which was nice.
In other news, I'm gonna make cupcakes. Carrot cupcakes. Gluten-free ones with really pretty icing too! :D