hello friends!
greetings from the land of new york city. as usual, it is lovely here, if a little dirty. many, many things have happened/are going to happen soon since last i spoke to shambot. (he never calls!)
most notably, i gots me a payin’ job! at pinch sitters (did you catch the pun there? it’s very clever) a babysitting agency in the city. it’s pretty much the coolest thing ever. here’s the rundown on how it works: the woman who runs it has a bookful of clients who are “accepted” to pinch sitters–they have to go through a background check, etc before they are allowed to use the service. she (we’re going to call her M) fields all the calls for sitting jobs, then distributes them to her sitters, who email her their schedules every week. so basically, i can work whenever i want–i just let m know when is okay to call, and when’s not ok, and she emails/calls me with bookings, usually about 24 hours in advance. the client pays me directly, and then each week i turn in my timecard and the amount of money i owe m (the client pays me the full amount per hour, m gets a certain amount off the top). everything is in cash, and apparently there is plenty of work available. kind of like drug dealing, i suppose. except with babies.
so, my first booking is tonight. tomorrow, due to a very urgent book party celebration i will be hitting up with suzannah, i will not be working, but i have another booking friday night. i am very excited. and naturally, i will keep you all up to date with tales of the manhattan mini-elite (apartment on park avenue, anyone?). also, news from my first release party to come as well.
oh, and for all you who are wondering, the march issue of harper’s should be out pretty soon. check that shit! it’s a really good issue. “i was a chinese internet addict” is especially wonderful. not to mention those non-commission pieces in the readings section. damn, some art intern over there has a good eye.
ok. more soon. (oh, and seriously, i AM doing art. lots of it, in fact. but the nysp studio facilities blow so hard that a) i am never in them, because i have no f-ing studio space anyway, and b) the scanner is a piece of crap. i refuse to use it until it hooks up properly to my lappy (the computers we have are still stuck on the super old version of photoshop (the one with the eye) and i need to clean it with windex. but i’ll post photos of work soon.)
LAHVE.
ps. angie is coming out here! yay! she wins the prize of my everlasting love and affection! (oh wait, i guess she already had that. oh well.)