This economy crap sucks. I know it's taking serious tolls on people's lives, but for the first time today - it truly, directly affected me. I was given a promotion a few weeks ago. I deserved and earned this, and it was very exciting. It involved restructuring of our department. A new office (with windows to the outside world) and new responsibilities for me, and we'd hire a new person to take on much of the administrative stuff I've been dealing with that takes up a lot of time.

Not to mention that today was the first day I've done something that didn't require any revisions at all - it was great as it was and garnered full approval of both of my supervisors and the president. My balloon inflated, only to be popped this afternoon.

They have decided not to hire someone new to take on the administrative tasks. This essentially means that I will be doing the same stuff under a different name. Same for my boss. They simply gave us the hope of change, but aren't going to follow through. I'm positive that they did this simply to keep the two of us here. Well it worked. The economy has crashed and there are no opportunities out there for either of us. The really terrible part: my boss actually turned down another position to keep her job here because of all the changes they promised. Now there aren't any opportunities available for either of us and we're stuck.

This is awesome. I suppose on the bright side: none of my money is in any of the banks that have failed (except a small loan through AIG, and oh yeah, our car insurance), Nick and I both work in good, solid, stable industries that are unaffected by the economy (yeah - I could barely type that with a straight face... construction... psha...), we have our health (damn this bronchitis), we don't own a home with an ARM loan (this one's legit... nothing bad about that!), and we're totally in love with each other. I suppose it really isn't that bad after all.