Money...and a night out

So far, I've been getting on with what I can pick up for free, or $1L. Except for three outfits that a shop owner gave me as a "promotion". I think he just took pity on me. :) And a new walk and stance that he also bought for me.

Now that I'm through testing the waters, I need money. Looking at my skills, there isn't much there. I am not very artistic, I've never tried to use the paint and modelling tools to make clothes, animations, or anything. My one attempt at building something with prims ended in a pile of unrecognizable slag. I can script quite well. But I don't know enough about what scripts people might need to start a scripting business. Besides, bare scripts are fairly useless outside of the item they are supposed to inhabit.

Hmm.. DJ? No I can't really do that. Event hosting? Um...maybe I should attend events first. :)

A 'mature' career as an escort, or dancer? No thank you. I don't have the skin, don't have the animations, have never tried to cyber, and I doubt I'd be very good at it anyway since it doesn't really interest me. I'll confess to being curious about what the attraction is for a lot of people, though; curious enough that I did poke my head into one of 'those'places (after a night at clubs where I met 4 guys who's "Hey Sexy" was 5 minutes from "Hey" to "Sex"). It was enough to convince me that I could never escort. There are too many things out there that I'm not comfortable with, even in SL with that nice eject button in the corner (Maybe I'll write about that night in another post...it's surprisingly PG rated).

So this week I upgraded to Premium. At least I'll have a small stipend, and can own land eventually. Maybe as I get more experience with this life, a career opportunity will come along. Until then, it looks like my budget is 300L per week.

This week, I wanted to go to someplace classy, which meant formalwear. I made a beeline to Sirena's,bought a dress that I have wanted since I saw it, and headed for Phat Catz Jazz Club. I had heard that it was the most popular jazz club in SL. I needed that tonight.

Phat Catz is a classic jazz scene. It is an open air club, with a large dance floor. And popular it is! It took quite a time for me to fully load, and lag spikes made walking a bit of a chore at times.

Once there, it was everything I had hoped it would be. Excellent music, a wonderful atmosphere, and a hint of romance under a starlit sky. They even have champagne tables!

Being a natural wallflower, I had expected to spend most of the night lingering on the fringe, people-watching. But my feet had barely hit the floor before I was bombarded with IMs. Literally! I think I had four dance offers at once. Now...I had picked a jazz club hoping that "Hey Sexy!" would be more subdued than at other clubs. But, my dance card was full all night. I will say that happily all of my dance partners were perfect gentlemen (even if a few could use some cleaning up...jeans and newbie skin/hair...). I don't know if it was the club, my profile rules, my personality, or something else. But I didn't get any "come to my place", or "I know a quiet beach" pressure. I think Phat Catz will become a favorite hangout!

"So...do you come here often?"

One funny moment though. A guy with blue hair came up to me and delivered the best "Hey Sexy" I've heard. "Hi Mer, can blue hair dance with red? I think we were made for each other". Natalia...if you read this, I think I've found Mr. "Blue-where-art-thou". LOL.