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my very own babysitter's club

so i've been thinking about jobs a lot recently. probably because i only have enough money in the bank to cover one month's rent. but i've been wondering what kind of job i should get. what i'm looking for is one that makes me lots and lots of money and is the least stressful and the least time consuming. dream job: someone pays me to read books (anyone now wondering why i want to become a professor of literature?) but since i'm not going to find any sort of dream job this summer, i must find a real one. and i mean like a serious one, maybe some 9-5 thing or something. jeez that sounds horrible. but my credit card balance is disturbingly high, so for once in my life i'm going to suck it up and do any job that will pay the bills. but i do seem to have options. there's restaurant work, becoming someone's personal assitant, a receptionist, or even finding more babysitting work. anything to make money (no, not anything, prostitution is not really an option). but so anyway, i've been thinking a lot about babysitting recently. it's a job i really do love and often find amazingly rewarding. but beyond that it's also amazingly annoying at times. its an odd thing. you sometimes become like some weird appendage to the family. sometimes you're with the family for years and then it becomes natural to like be at the private family gift giving. but sometimes you're standing there singing joyeux anniversaire thinking "i should not be here, i am not a member of this family." also, the annoying thing about babysitting is having to act grown up in front of the kids. like not licking the yogurt top (which i sooo wanted to do today). and not belching. and having correct grammar. and just in general acting like a grown up which is such a lie cause i almost Never act like a grown up. if only they knew. they'd rightfully beseech me for being a hypocrite. oh, and madame today pointed out that i eat like a kid. like that i only like simple kid foods like pasta and stuff. it made me laugh so fucking hard because she's right. i think i'm in a "i don't wanna grow up" mood. woohoo.

posted by lindsey @ 9:44 PM