Blue Nettles

I'm still at my job at Commerce. The clearance finally came through but a few days before USAID's 06 appropriation came in with a $50m cut. So the office I was going to work at immediately put a hiring freeze on the whole agency. So I'm in limbo until they figure out if they are really going to hire me or not. The Director still wants to hire me, and if my clearance had come through a few days sooner I'd be packing my stuff up now, but they have to figure out how to handle the budget cut. The people at Commerce are happy to keep me but I'd like to move on now.

For fun, last Sunday, a friend and I went to see/smell the "Corpse Plant" at the botanical garden. That was some good stink this year (I went to last year's bloomin'). Afterwards we went out to brunch.