Raining hard, cold. I have a headache and stuffy nose. Been awake since four reading a detective novel. Doesn't help with the stress. I have to figure out how to deal with it. Work stress. The board delivered the posters for the fund-raising event tomorrow on Monday. Interns put them up yesterday. Yesterday afternoon I get an email that there are more places to add to the list--and could the interns solicit some more donations? There are supposed to be 52 restaurants, 52 weeks of free food. They have 37. and tomorrow night the winner will be drawn. Tell me from the beginning what I have to do and I will make sure it gets done. Tell me the day before and I will freak out. Actually I dumped it on Jaron. He is the Americorps VISTA participant and I spent some time yesterday looking for any information about what our obligations and expectations are regarding him. I found an email from 9 months ago; his primary purpose is recruiting homeless and formerly homeless people for a speakers' panel. But he is supposed to do fund-raising, grant-writing and public relations work for us as well. So I gave the board member his name and contact info. and told him he might need to put everything else on hold for a day or two. Of course, going door to door in the pouring rain trying to solicit gift certificates is not fun.

I also had a call from the state DCA office--she wants to come audit us on Friday. I said that wasn't a really great day, but we will not turn you away. She needs to look at financial records and case files to verify our reimbursement requests. I can do that. But Kerri will be teaching and won't be around until afternoon. She also wants to see policies and procedures for the two programs, as well as financial policies and procedures. Kerri and I found them; whether we follow them or not is another question. She wants an example of a resident who was asked to leave, so she can see if we are following our own policies or not. Terrifying.

Plus, I didn't even look at the grant proposals yesterday. One of the grants ends in December and the money should be used up by then. In some categories, it has been used up for months: child care, transportation. But we still have lots of health care money. People either have Medicaid or don't need health care...I guess. and mental health care. We can't get them to go to counseling. Or we don't have to pay.

Had lunch with Becky--very enjoyable--fajita and flan. Thought of Molli and Mexico.

Left at almost 4; talked to interns about their jobs. Made dinner with Ray, went to Arabic. Only 2 of us, reviewed letters and sounds and writing words and sentences. Hopefully I know most of them now.