Lucky Number Slevin…. Er-Um 2007!

So here’s to 2007 being a better and luckier year than the last one. I have to say that aside from the bliss of having my schnookums around, sporadic fencing, sewing, and otherwise looking for a job, this year has to be better than the last! It does not look promising that I will be returning to Purdue for work. I haven’t heard anything from my supervisor at all. I e-mail once a week or so to remind her I am still around and willing to fill in wherever I am needed. It looks like the last office I worked at may have screwed me big time. I can even assume that the offices I worked for while at Purdue might have screwed me collectively. It’s hard to meet criteria when it’s not clear what the criteria happens to be at any given office. Right? Right! This is especially so when you’re treated like the idiot place holder for someone more “qualified” that you to do the job they already have you doing. Sheesh.

The joy is, I can refile for unemployment, it will be based off the last 18 months and that means my highest paid quarter of those 18 months would still include Wabash Valley Hospital; the irony being that was biggest screw over on me in the first place and it will save me from earning only the minimum pay of $50 a week from unemployment. Who the hell can live off of $50 a week? Perhaps if it was summer time and I had to live in my car, I could eat off that, but not live, not pay bills of any fashion… It makes me wonder if we should just live in an extreme socialist state for a while. Food for thought there me thinks.

So my New Year’s Eve consisted of fencing at Pieter’s house in the barn. Trying out a new fencing hood drape to see how much cooler it would feel to have it on over the mask rather than a hood crammed under the mask. I can hear better, I don’t feel like the fat kid getting the face squished together by grandma, and it’s just plan cool to be recognized as appearing to be a clown Sith fencing in a barn. Now that’s entertainment folks! Not to mention the bells hanging off the lire pipe on the back of the drape. wOOt! Gonna finish one for Adam within the next few days, but I gotta get some other work done first. Right now, I am just taking a break and it feels needed before I get all antsy and have to rummage through the fridge. I don’t want my ass hanging out of the fridge every half hour damnit.

Meanwhile, I guess I should get my happy as back on the job here and get some work done. I can at least keep that home “work” going until I hear what the verdict is on the unemployment and if I have to, start working at Julie’s again to keep myself occupied. I suppose I could claim all I can at Julie’s and offset the weekly claims to stretch it out as long as I can. Now that I know I can do that and keep looking for a job, it helps not to panic too much. TTFN

Tammolly ~ Hanging in there.

...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin...