Health: weird, I was pretty fine yesterday once I got to work. This morning I again have sore throat and stuffiness. I also woke up from a bad dream about 4. I took a Tylenol and slept until 6;15. I feel a little better now.

Weather: it was 30 out last night when I went to bed. We turned off the solar water heater. But it still claims to be 30. It was windy yesterday but sunny.

Three grant proposals being reviewed by board members and HED staff to be turned in today with any minor changes. I was quite productive yesterday, preparing 3 grant reimbursements as well. Kerri started working on a record-keeping system to track success rates of people who leave the shelter. Yay! Taylor is proposing to interview 100 former residents, if he can find them. Yay! The Operations Committee of the Board met with Kerri and me at 4:30. Although their purpose is to help us, it did feel a little bit like a way to think up more things we need to take care of. Mary K. gave us each a fruit basket. yay! Maureen, a new board member, who is a CPA, wanted copies of the financial records. I meant to give them to her, but had to rush off to get to Arabic class. After I thought about it, I was mildly irritated. The treasurer already has all that--talk to her about it. But I guess we'll cooperate for now. As it turns out, I was 10 minutes early to Arabic, but of course I didn't have my papers and notebooks and homework. I ordered some humus and pita because I was starving and began reviewing. I was the only student for the first hour, so Zuhair reviewed numbers with me. He gets annoyed when I can't read the letters still. His handwriting is not completely consistent, and remember the letters change when they are in different places in the words. He says, "remember, that's a broken aleph, because it is at the end of the word after a lem..." or whatever and I do remember that he mentioned it, but I haven't practiced enough to be able to keep track of everything. We actually started working on questions and answers. Wes arrived at 7, which made it much more pleasant. He is better than me in lots of ways. My strength is pronunciation and hearing the differences, which we don't do much of. Mostly it is written. Very humbling.

When I got home, there was a plate of food waiting for me. yay!

Barbara is on her way to Japan to see her grandson in person--bon voyage!