If you know me at all, you know all about the graduate scholarship I accepted and the requirement to work for the federal government that came along with it.  You also know that the government flat out isn't and hasn't been hiring for quite some time now.  The worry and unsteadiness has taken a lot out of me, probably more than could be imagined without having to deal with it 1st hand.

The end of the struggle is near.  The official paperwork requesting that my service obligation to the federal government is backed by those that need to support it and has been submitted.  I'll find out any day now if my waiver request is approved, and it will be approved.

I've accepted a job offer from Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the world's top information assurance consulting firms.  I'll be working at US Stratcom, doing the same job I have been doing on a temporary contract since this past october. 

I'm still uneasy and anxious right now.  I "know" how things are going to work out, but i don't KNOW just yet....but finally....finally it looks like things might work out for me.

Thank you to all the people who listened to me, tolerated my rants of rage...my moments of anxiety and uncertainty, and my moments of hopelessness....and thanks to all of you who told me that everything would work out as it should....it looks like that is finally happening.