If she'll think it's cute, I'd give her the diet cinnamon set. I, on the other hand, want the full fat lotion.

Beej, I'm sorry you're having such a rotten time. I'm glad venting helped.

DH just put up our old, and very small Christmas treet which we will decorate later and so it's feeling more like Christmas around here.

Christmas treet is my favorite typo of the season. I'm so glad you're cleared, Cashmere. I hope you take it way way way way easy, and that you don't need to.

Cashmere, I'm glad you've been cleared and that things look okey dokey. Take it easy. Let us know if there's anything we can do.

So, I paged my therapist two hours ago. She called me back really quickly and we talked for just a minute, because she was about to go back into session. She gave me some "homework" to do and e-mail her, then she was going to call me after that session...an hour ago. She still hasn't called. I'm going to page again at 8. But, I'm getting all worked up in the meantime.

Christmas treet is my favorite typo of the season

Hee. That's what I should call those easy-bake toll-house cut-out cheating cookies I got at the store last week in case I needed them.

Better than a Christmas teet.

I suppose that depends.

Ok, question two, what would a reasonable hourly rate be? I have no idea what tutoring runs.

The tutoring I've done, I'll generally quote either $40 or $35 an hour, but in some cases I'll go down to $25. Most grad students I know who tutor charge something similar; undergrads mostly charge in the $20-$30 range.

Fay, lots of work-out-for-the-best~ma.

Thanks on the tutoring advice.

The meeting went well. They took pages and pages of notes. In January we will go to their office to sign the paperwork for them to file.

C just grabbed the phone and has decided she is ready to call her dad regarding both Christmas and guardianship.... I gave her lots of hugs before she disappeared upstairs. I think I'm more nervous for her now that I was pre-meeting.

Ok, question two, what would a reasonable hourly rate be? I have no idea what tutoring runs.

I get paid $30 an hour, but my clients actually pay my agent something more like $65-75 an hour. The agency then pays me. It's a bit of a shaft, but at the same time I'm too lazy to find my own clients. This is also in NYC, where all things are expensive. Gershwin Girl actually has connections in Westchester (VERY nice suburb), and gets paid $130 an hour (!!) to tutor kids there.

All beside the point. As already said, your best bet is definitely to check with universities. $30 an hour is a reasonable expectation, you could probably get $25 from most undergrads, especially if you take K-Bug to them rather than them coming to you.

See if UC Berkeley has a Career Center or some such. Those often keep tutor lists - Caltech's did, though I never used it myself. They'll send your info to a mailing list, and you'll have poor, desperate undergrads fighting over your tutoring position.