In today's mail: a letter from the very official and legal Office of Administrative Hearings for the Employment Security Department.

And we quote: "The Decision of the Employment Security Department under appeal (the fact that they denied my training request) is set aside. The claimant's (that's me!) application for Commissioner Approved Training purusant to RCW 50.20.043 is approved for the period beginning June 23, 2002."

Yay! Yay! Yay!

Basically it means I get to go to school each week as my "job search activity" instead of applying for jobs I hope to not get. Of course, there's no guarantee that my unemployment benefits will run out before my schooling is up, but at the least, I will have three months to not worry about finding a job.

Although, ironically enough, I had the job interview yesterday. I have a job interview next week. And the sheriff's department wants me to come in to take a skills test for a job I applied for with them. So, now that I don't have to find a job, all these ones I had applied for before are coming around.

Reminds me of a thing I heard on the radio. Liz and I used to listen to a local radio station that plays a short "funny" at 5:20PM to help commuters get through their drives home. In one of the comedy bits they played, the comedienne was discussing Alanis Morissette's song "Ironic." After reading off the sentences in the song (a black fly in your chardonay; a free ride when you've already paid, etc), she said, "No, Alanis, it's not ironic. It's unfortunate."

It would be pretty darn unfortunate for a job to come up that I like after all the struggle it's taken me to get to the point where I don't have to look for a job right away.