couple o' things
I forgot to mention that on Monday my dad stopped by in remarkably good spirits. Turns out that the EEO got wind of his termination from the Postal Service and decided to take it up with his bosses. I can't remember all of the details of what's going to happen but basically there's going to be something called a resolve. If my dad wins, which it sounds like he probably will, he will get his job back, along with all of his back pay, benefits and lawyer's fees. Good stuff. He's trying not to get his hopes up just yet but it's looking pretty good for him. Now he can stop being depressed. It's too bad that a person's job would be the keystone to their entire happiness but I guess that's just how some people are.
CMU: I went there yesterday to talk to this guy in Human Resources. It went really well and I think I'm going to have a job there by the summer. Next week I'm going to the temp services at CMU and getting hooked up with them. My plan, albeit a tentative one, is to work for a year or so, saving up enough money to get some bare essentials (place to live, car, hopefully). I'm also hoping to do some free-lancing in the meantime in order to keep the writing thing going. Then once things feel a little…grounded I'm going to uproot everything and try to go to grad school. But I can't really think about the whole grad school thing right now because it just makes me too nervous.
War: I've been trying not to comment too much on it because I don't want to go off on rants that make little to no sense. But I just wanted to say how sad I was when I saw the headlines this morning and all of those civilians had been killed. Man, I bet there aren't any international terrorists itching to blow up our entire country now.
So I feel kind of silly talking about jobs and grad school and whatnot when people on the other side of the world are getting killed for no good reason. It's just too confusing to think about sometimes.
