So I have a job. Until July 6th, I can commute on the bus without any trouble. After that, I'm going to need a reliable commuter car that's an automatic. Boy. This just keeps getting better and better.

Mind you, the job does NOT pay what my last one did, but it can keep us in the house, so that's all that matters in the end.

Going to a meeting this AM, to talk about my potential worker retraining. Hopefully, I have enough documents to make this fly. We'll see.

The summer 2009 version of insomnia has finally kicked in. Right around Beltaine every year, and lasting until just after Mabon, I have a bloody hell of a time sleeping. I wake up with the sun, and cannot reliably get to bed until after 11pm. At summer solstice, that can be a real bear. Just sayin'.

I don't even know how to describe yesterday. I got so ramped up on endorphins finding out that I was going to be able to GO to mortuary school (I don't like calling it funeral school...life is funeral school ;) ). That I might be able to start as soon as this summer. THIS SUMMER. I was ramped and amped and generally too psyched to do anything but focus on getting things done. Things like getting my financial aid in order. Getting old transcripts ordered. OMG, this can happen. This can be done.

Heck, I got so excited I tried to register for classes this morning aty 8am. Turns out, I'm about 3 weeks early. Larissa (the nice lady who reminds me of Clotho...do not ask) at Lake Washington not only remembered me from my call yesterday, but laughed at me. I can't register until May 14th. But my enthusiasm pleased her.

Then huddyn tipped me off to AmeriCorps. I didn't know they took folks over 25. Turns out they did. Applied to god knows how many local programs. After the end of the year? You get about $4000 towards college. They pay you to volunteer. Oh hell yes. I am so tired of pharmacy. I'm tired of what it makes me feel like, emotionally and morally. That's not saying I wouldn't take a job at a pharmacy if I could get one here in Everett...but honestly? I want something else for my life.

So. I'm still where I was last Wednesday. Still no job. Still no unemployment. Still job hunting. But the whole /landscape/ has changed. And that is good.