Remembered Thought: A guy from the first college I went to made the connection one day that the voices of Axl Rose and Carol Channing are interchangeable. Think about it!

Anyway.

As posted at Digs, I’ve been thinking more and more about the old “selling stuff I create” idea. I have some great shots of local architecture, flowers, macro stuff, etc, and I’ve been told by more than a few people that I should be selling prints or notecards or something. So, I’m pondering it.

However, there are tons of things I would need to do it.

First, if I did notecards, do I print them up at shutterfly and do boxes, or do I try to find some sort of nice, high quality, photo ‘frame’ gift card that I add my own prints to? And if I do, where do I find those in bulk?

And for prints or cards, I would want to package them in those crisp, clear plastic envelopes. Where do those come from? And finally, how much do I charge? What would you pay for a matted 11×14, 5×7, or notecard, for instance? Or, have you seen similar ventures and what do people charge?

I tend to lowball such things (my in-home computer clients are charged 25/hr by me, which I now know is 50/hr less than any other in-home provider, which is why I think I need to get refocused on tech again) so I would appreciate any honest advice.

In other news, school is . . . . okay. I got my room in order, including gutting and reorganizing over 100 linear feet of shelfspace, and a closet I never even USED last year. I carted two six foot stacks of binders and other crap down to the teacher I replaced, and installed shelves and plastic drawers and all kinds of stuff to make it look liveable. I even, gasp!, arranged all of my texts by subject/texts and teacher editions/ supplementals and I can see the brown fakewood of my DESKTOP. My Marvin the Martian coaster is in place; I just need to remember to bring my coffee mug in tomorrow.

Tomorrow, I will be working on plans for the little buggers for the next few weeks, and getting the kids tables set up. Wednesday, They Arrive. UGH. Well, kind of UGH, I guess I AM a little excited to see them, some of them anyway. I was emailed by a few this summer, including one today that said “I wish you were going to be my HS teacher,” (she was in 8th last year), so that made me feel good. And while there are certainly a LOT that I’m stressing out about, there are many that I am really excited to see, and I have to remember that. And, while heterogeneous groupings are NOT what’s happening this year (which is so, so wrong, and defeats the good that comes from public education) I can’t help but be a little thankful that I won’t be overrun by parents who mean well and do too much and end up enabling their precious darlings. You know?

Anyway. I slept like shit last night, if I DID sleep, and I am SO READY to sleep tonight. It can’t come fast enough.