Well, my plans for surviving the recession have just collapsed around me. This is not going to be an easy diary for me to write, but at this point, ranting to DailyKos beats the alternatives, which is mostly to think about what's going to happen over the next couple of months.
So why am I not getting unemployment? It's not for the usual reasons. It's because of a confluence of bureaucratic snafus that nobody told me about, and that there may be no way out of. Follow me below the fold to learn how even the most supposedly privileged of people, a white, male bioscience Ph.D., is a disposable commodity in this economy.