The recession is supposed to be over but...

I've been lurking in the blogging world, reading blogs and such, but I haven't been commenting like I used to nor I have been posting on my blog. I haven't been that inspired to blog lately because it seems like everything I have to say is something not-so-happy.

But that is just what I am going to do: write about something about something not-so-happy...

The worst of the recession is supposed to be over, but it's at this time that my family is actually feeling it. Last Tuesday the company my dad has worked at for the past thirteen years finally went bankrupt. It gathered its employees and announced that they are closing their doors after December 2009. That means my dad still has a job for a month and then he'll have to find another one. I'm confident that he'll find something else, but still I worry. My mom worries. I think my siblings are too young to really see how this will impact our family but I think they're worried too.

Then, selfish person that I am, I can't help but think that my dream of going back to grad school in the near future is not going to happen in the near future. I hate myself for thinking this but there it is. As an added hit, they're reducing my hours at work again and they keep switching me to doing different tasks. It's very frustrating and annoying and I don't know what to do. I am completely lost.