For those of you who haven't heard, I'm no longer employed in Ann Arbor for the summer, due to a rather frustrating circumstances. Basically, at the fundraising job, if you don't raise enough money three days in a row, you're fired no matter what. So, despite the fact that I was one of the major volunteers for extra projects and all the directors agreed that I was beneficial for office morale, I got three-day standarded out of the job. The most frustrating part of it is that it was the main director who was micro-managing what neighborhoods I was going to each day for the last week and consistently put me in financially depressed neighborhoods and places that had already been canvassed recently. You know...exactly what the Field Manager is never supposed to do. General consensus is that she was gunning for me to get fired for inscrutable reasons.

So here's the plan! I'm going to take the rest of the summer to focus on my grad school reading and enjoy myself. I already had enough money set aside for the full summer's worth of rent in both apartments (Bloomington and Ann Arbor), still have a paycheck to pick up later from the job, and have a decent amount saved up to get me through. Plans to go to AC are still on. Travels planned now include:
June 27-30/July 1: Bloomington, IN
July 4 or 5-July 7: AnthroCon
Late July: home to Massachusetts

Plus there's one other bonus! Much as I have enough money to get me through, I figure now is as good a time as any to work more on my rug punching skills and make a little money on the side! Consequently, I'm opening up for rug commissions as detailed in this journal: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/4773712/

I also plan to do some pre-made stuff with the supplies I have strewn about, so watch for those to start appearing here and on one of the auction sites.

So job lost, but I'm not concerned. I still have three more years of funding and teaching guaranteed in Bloomington, so I'm in no danger in the long-term.