Although TPTB didn't explicitly say that I shouldn't talk about my situation with co-workers, I'm smart enough to know that doing so would probably endanger my already tenuous position.
Yeah, when I was told me contract wasn't being renewed, I got a certified letter from the douchey lawyer that stipulated I wasn't to talk to staff or students about it because it could result in me not being paid till my contract ended. It really made me mad -- I mean, WTF, I can't tell my co-workers and my students I won't be back next year? I know it was probably something I could have fought -- douchey lawyer is not HR; in fact, HR at this place is pretty non-existent and some of their staffing practices are sketchy, if not de facto illegal. But I need my paycheck till 8/15. So I just told certain people and certain students and kept things on the DL.
Well, can you declare a Birthday Rain Date, and move your birthday festivities to a different date? I think that you should -- nay, you MUST, this year of all years. You NEED it, girlie.
Oh, my friend was supernice about it, and if it weren't for the fact that other close friends of ours who NEVER EVER give parties are having a huge 15 year anniversary/housewarming the weekend before, she wouldn't have picked that date. And what was I going to say? No, don't have your wedding reception on my birthday, that I don't have anything concrete planned for anyway? I am not that bitchy and selfish. But I do reserve the right to bitch and moan about it, a little, esp. here where no one is invested.
I was just excited to have my birthday on an actual non-work day, and to have it on someone else's special day makes me a little sad. Cause even if I do something else another time, it won't be my birthday, and one of my friends will be celebrating something I am kinda sure I'll never have on that day.
And I will stop being whiny about it, I promise, but I just found out yesterday, and I need to have a bit of moan over it, and then I will deal. But it makes me quietly sad.