Back-up plan

[windemere]

Okay, so if academia doesn't work out, I have a great second solution:

Edie and Mom co-buy a villa here: http://www.losportico.com/pages/Home which happens to have a dive shop on the premise and has amazing diving off the coast (we're going there in May for just that purpose) and I take my Divemaster course and I get a job at the shop and I live at the villa (mostly for free) and I only have to put up with parents and aunt for a few months out of the year, and in the summers I can do whatever I want (travel, etc.) and in 5 or 6 years when they sell the place I will have the experience to get hired on some other tropical island in some other part of the Caribbean and find a place of my own and then like...retire, except dive for a living.

Uh...maybe I should just skip academia and go straight to this?

::ponders::

Comments

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

If that happens, you are totally hiring me as a professional boat person. And possibly guest coordinator. Hell, I'll get my ears fixed and learn to dive.

[eldanna.livejournal.com]

Professional boat person? What exactly do you think that involves?

I will have no control over guest coordinator, but anytime you want to visit...there's a couch or two.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Tan? And make sure the divers don't drown or get run over by a boatload of hooligans? And play with MacDuff?

[eldanna.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'll put you in charge of dive gear. That should be safe enough.