So. I can't wait for April to be over. This has been the craziest month ever. Without a doubt. Not the busiest, but the craziest.

No, there are no monkey related stories in this post; I just thought it made a cool title. Welcome to fiction. One of these days I WILL make up some strange story.

Anyway back to the crazy month:
So the business deal went awry and I lost my park service job by three days becase of the sour deal. It sucked for the deal to go sour, but that wasn't unexpected. What really sucked was losing my back up job by three days. So, I had to start researching for a job and I started with the park. To make a long story short, my job had already been offered to another, so technically it was gone, but not completely gone because there was a catch. You ready? There use to be a government means of choosing from the top three-five candidates applying for a position. That way, there was a little leeway based on "rank" which we won't even get into. However, the stupid powers that be passed a new law that requires military veterans to ALWAYS be considered above any other applicants. Well, as it turns out a military applicant had "ranked" higher than the person my boss hired. But my boss didn't know of the new directive, and he was told by his boss and others to unoffer the job to the poor college kid and offer it to the veteran (Talk about a shitty position). However, the veteran had worked at the park before and was rude, incompetent, and just plain awful. No one wanted him back, yet the directive was clear. So, The assistant superintendent was enlisted to contact the destrict office in Omaha, NE (I work in MI) to get an official waver to higher this poor college kid who just had a job "unoffered" to her because of official BS. So, the only way I was getting my old job back was if 1) They couldn't get a waver to bypass the rude veteran and hire the college kid. Therefore it was out of my hands, yet a really awful situation nonetheless. To summarize: they did get a waver, but the next day another park employee took another job at another park so I was able to come back and the college kid was able to be hired. A happy ending!

Or was it? I unofficially found out I was rehired on a Sunday. I didn't get the official call until Tuesday! However, on that Monday... I suddenly was informed of a completely unexpected job offer of a permanent nature (as oppose to seasonal as I am now). The jobs each had merits and flaws and damned if I had a hard time deciding. Again, to shorten this lengthy post as much as possible, after much agony, I decided to return to the park. The other job offer just wasn't enough to screw over my poor boss after what his bosses had just done to him. Perhaps it was the wrong choice as the park job provides NO security and no benefits and bad management while the other job offered full time emploment and benefits. At least I can live with my self as a good person. I suppose I'm loyal to a fault and just can't turn my back on good people even if its to my significant advantage.

Sigh. :smt009

In other news, I'm updating the SFWW Wiki stuff. I've started a new young adult book entitled "The Gravedigger's Son". I'm being super optimistic and plan to try to crank out a draft in four weeks, before I start work at the park!

Write on!

Moral: Don't ever apply to work for the government.