Amusing stories in the midst of a crisis

When I was in grad school one of my favorite profs used to tell us that the Chinese symbol for crisis meant both hope and I think despair. Over the course of the past week I'd probably agree with that. For those of you who do not know, last Tuesday I lost my job secondary to "budgetary constraints." What does this mean? This means last Tuesday morning I was running the weekly team meeting my boss called me down at 11:45 to the conference room. I went down and was informed that they are letting me go. I was proud of me I did not cry in front of my now ex-boss. I did cry in front of everyone else as I was saying goodbye to all my colleagues. As I was saying goodbye it occurred to me that uh oh PT/OT would now have to deal with my boss and the other social worker who thinks that anyone who is not a SW aka exactly like her is below her. (This includes me, I do not think of myself as a therapist and I do not want to be.) I started giggling at this point. My emotions seem to run between hope/despair.
The next amusing story is I was sending my resume to a facility but the part that you needed to fill out aka first/last name the first couple of letters were cut off. I sent the site to my brilliant computer geek friend. Who IMs me and informs me that all of his coworkers are currently giggling at the site b/c it was laid out so badly. He suggested that I use a different web browser. When I did it was still having some issues. My friend amused me greatly when he sent the facility's web operator person the correction to the site so it can now be viewed under any browser.
Lastly, I was in the supermarket yesterday and saw a good friend who I do not get to see very often. I turned to him and informed him that I have news. He immediately looked at my barren ring finger on my left hand. As I'm dying of laughter I said no not that kind of news. I lost my job. He's like I'm assuming if you were engaged you would have told me. I said probably true.