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Things that I have been thinking about.

1. I wonder if bulters have a union. I mean, I think they should so that they can earn a fair wages and receive benefits and the like, but I've never heard of a Union of American Butlers, or American Buters United, or United Butlers American. Maybe it exists though. I don't feel like googling it, plus if I did and it existed, I'd have to erase everything I've written. Anyway, my point is that butlers should have a union. Though, now that I think about it, maids and nannies don't have unions either. The hospitality industry is completely ununionized. I don't know if the hospitality industry refers to careers like butlering, but whatever.

2. I was eating a banana, which is rich in potassium (which strikes me as kind of a kicking word, like sassy, which I guess is due to the fact that the two words share three of the same letters but then again, so does bass). Anyway, I got potassium confused with calcium and I thought, "if calcium helps you grow bones, and if you eat a lot of it, would you grow extra bones?" And then I was thinking about where those bones would go. My first thought was that you'd probably get extra bones in your butt, because there's space there. But then I was like, you should get extra ribs because then your heart (stomach?) would be super protected and instead of having bonespacebone, it would bonebonebone, so you'd essentially have a cylinder of bone encircling your body. Then if you get shot, you'd pretty much have to get shot in the same spot two times in a row for the bullet to get to your heart. Unless bullets can go through bone, in which case, you'd probably still die.

Also, I was thinking about Boutros Boutros-Ghali today and it totally made me smile. I wish I could talk to that guy. I mean, I kind of want to be Freeman's mentee, but if I could be Boutros' mentee, that would be pretty awesome.

For the past few days, I've spent most of my time looking for a job. All of my summer plans [going to South Africa, interning for an agency that works with refugees] didn't work out. So I resigned myself to working and saving up for a superawesome summer next year. Except that's not really working out either due to the recession.

Yesterday, I grew increasingly frustrated with my job search, and it kind of struck me that this is what so many other people have been going through, except for them it's ten times worse. I'm not the head of any household, I don't have any dependents. I just want a job so that I can go to Uganda next summer [which is a luxury when you think about it, even though apparently some people's dreams don't include going to countries in Africa that are in the midst of a civil war, or so I've been told. Also, I promised myself that I would buy a hedgehog if I made more than $1000 this summer, which was probably not a good idea, seeing as how I'd probably use $200 on buying it and food and all of that, but I also really want a hedgehog and I promised myself and I try not to break promises.] Whereas other people don't just want a job, they NEED a job. To pay rent, buy food and other basic necessities. So basically, I'm really selfish.

And even knowing all of this, I still really want a job. So, if anyone's looking for an inexperienced college student who has no real skill, unless you want someone who is moderately bad at the ukulele or knows Sufjan Steven's discography by heart, I'm your girl!