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dear friends list,

it has become apparent to me that i need to ~~be in canada RIGHT NOW KTHX~~ start seriously saving for coming over to canada/the states. the airfare alone will cost me around $3000. if i stick with my current income, will take me liek, a couple of YEARS. so from now on i'm going to attempt to pull my finger out and save every single cent that is possible for me to save.

this includes, um, metaphorically whoring myself out to the world at large. i'm going to go through my stuff and see if anything is saleable. i'm also now offering what services i have to anyone who's willing to pay a smallish fee for them. this doesn't apply to people who i already do things for, or to people in the future i offer to do things for. but anyone else reading this who is interested in the following in exchange for some kind of monetary donation, LET ME KNOW OK.
- webdesign
- photoshoppery
- icon making?
- encoding/archiving (manual labor type stuff that's involved in web publishing)
- tutoring for webdesign/photoshop/stuff.

housemates and other peeps with whom i have human contact, let me know if you want me to clean your bathrooms or mow your lawns or type/proof your essays or tutor you in the writing of media essays or something. ANYTHING. honestly. i am busy with work and uni during the week but i am willing to commit my weekends to doing whatever it takes omg.

um. i should set up a paypal or something for myself, in case anyone wants to take up the above offers. i don't want to just ask for donations because that's. kinda. weird, i think. and this is separate to the hosting tip jar thing, this is me. PAY ME TO DO STUFF. um.

*runs off to do surveys for money or something omg*

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I also have the woe about how fecking expensive it is to fly to Canada (specifically Toronto). 3000 bucks WTF. It only costs 1500 or so to fly to NY :| Stupid Australia, being so far from everywhere else fun.

I will so very pay you for making me a NZ site. Let's talk rates :D

I checked 1800cheapseats.com (http://www.1800cheapseats.com/), which popped up a decent amount of flights for less than $2000 from Melbourne to NYC, so I'm sure that once you dug up the money, if you booked in advance you might find some decent prices.

Best of luck with the fund raising! Though personally, I'd probably opt for the decision to carry a cup around with me and say 'Am trying to escape Hell, give money to get me out!'

oooh. pay to be serviced by you? i'm in! i wouldn't mind some tutorage in web design, the basics i'm self-taught in but it would be nice to get some advice on certain things from a pro. also, how do you feel about helping edit original fiction? i really trust your advice and skills and honesty, so that would kinda rock.

i was looking up some professional rates, and a lot of them were about $60-$75 per page, so. i'd be able to afford to pay you $40 american (i think that's about $52 australian) for a really good new design template for my website. if that sounds fair to you, email/IM/comment me sometime.

My professional web site is a mess, I have an intern this summer but she's more a content person than design. We should talk!

If ya wanna do a pit stop in Cali, you can stay with me. : D I reckon Aus to Cali is cheaper than to the east coast. Though, once in Cali, you could do another ticket within the states. *nods*

And um, I do have a website that needs to be finished, maybe like, next month I'd wanna work on eet, so tell me darling wot your rates are kay? : D

I'd be interested in commissioning a few icons for friends - I know, not something that will pay for the gas to get you to the airport once you decide to come here, but it's a start. What would you charge?

I would be totally into paying for your services (as I had indicated to your before). Both for website design, pics, graphics, and even icons. You have made some of the best icons I have ever seen!

~~If you were to come to Canada, would you consider being anywhere in the Toronto area? :D Can I bribe you with cookies to come here?~~

Anyhow, I think you've got a very good idea, especially charging to make icons. Surely there are lots of people out there who have icon requests that nobody wants to fill for free ...
Best of luck with this!