Non-Profits RULE!

I actually have some good news to impart. Good news hasn't exactly been abundant lately, so we'll take whatever we can get! Anyway, I got my one year anniversary raise from Maine Preservation today, over a month before my actual anniversary date. It's only an extra $1 per hour, but hey, it's a floundering non-profit, so I ain't going to complain! Plus last year at this time I was making $2 less per hour than I am now. Good deal if you ask me.

And the other piece of good news is that Victoria Mansion has already asked me if I can cover the site manager position! It's not till April, but they wanted to give me plenty of advance notice. I guess the Mansion is having an event the last weekend of April, and the guy who took my job isn't starting till the first week of May. Thus, they need me to help out. They didn't mention anything about what was going on with the second site manager (which is the gift shop manager), but I'm thinking that maybe they want me to get some experience. I have training for the job about 2 weeks prior to the event (scheduled before I knew I would be doing the event), so that's good. It's something, right? I didn't think they would need me, despite the fact that they asked me to be the on-call site manager, but I ain't going to complain that this dude can't show up till after the event is over :-)

Nothing new with Erik. I'm the only one that has a "dramatic" life ;-)

Whatever!

Not much to report, but I figured I should post something so that the horrible job debacle posting isn't still at the top of your screen :-) I'm over it now, and decided to take the on-call position. I've been in this industry long enough to know that you don't burn bridges with anyone associated with museums. While they sort of did that with me, I'm not going to do it back to them. The bridge may be rickety at the moment, but I'm sure that a construction crew will be called in soon to restore it back to its original form :-) I have three training sessions in April for the position, so after that is when I'm truly on-call. I haven't told Maine Preservation about any of this yet, but I don't think it's going to effect them anyway.

Erik had his first Coast Guard drill weekend. He is VERY glad to be back in. I dropped him off and picked him up over the weekend, so of course I went on the base. Erik and I both have id's, but I still found the whole thing very lax! Granted, I know that it's only 1) a Coast Guard base, and 2) in Maine, but I had Dos in the car with me when I went to pick him up, and no one cared! I joked about how I could have been part of a coup and I was bringing Dos in to blow up the place or something. Sigh, those silly Feds ;-)

In other news, I've started studying for the GRE's again. D-Day is set for April 15. Let's see if I finally go through with it.