Just trying to get by

Sorry for not posting much recently. It's been a bit stressful at work. The economic conditions are so bad in California that even relatively conservite spending counties like the one I work for are having a real hard time trying to stay balanced. We just were alerted to layoffs. How they do it with our union is by seniority. I was tied for second from the bottom. If the union doesn't make concessions and the cuts go through, I'll now be tied at the bottom, which of course is pretty dang scary. The good news is that it doesn't look like the department that's paying for my position plans on giving it up anytime soon, so hopefully things will be just fine. But I think I'll be getting a couple of more gray hairs along the way. Thank goodness for hair dye!