I slept late again--it's almost 6:30.

Yesterday, I was interviewed by a journalism student, who is writing an article on homelessness. I often get emotional when talking to students. She asked me, "what can we do to help?" I said that we have lots of volunteers and that's great and money is always good. But a bigger thing is to change some of our societal values. If we realize what we are buying with our dollars--and shop at places that treat workers fairly, that will make a difference. If we change some of our expectations, and save money instead of feeling it necessary to buy everything that comes along, that would be a good start. We also talked some about what government can do. I wonder what this article will look like...She said it would be really good, because of me. We'll see.

I started trying to list donors for the last 6 months, for the newsletter. I found some discrepancies between Quickbooks, the accounting software I use, and the mailing list/database. This means that either I or Amanda, the intern who is entering the data, has done something wrong. In theory, there should be a copy of every check deposited that I can go back to and verify the information. when I tried to do that, I couldn't find some of them. It's not a major problem, I can thank people for donating without listing the amounts or the dates. Better to thank people who didn't give (who appear on one list), rather than not thank people who did. But now that I know, I can be more careful in the future and get it right.

We also found that several staff were not paid enough because Meredith didn't realize they get paid for some time that they have not yet worked and is not reflected on their time cards. Although she took responsibility for this, I should have thought of it and done a better job explaining to her.

Then there was an hour and a half webinar on executive compensation, which actually did have somr useful information, but was mainly about what an organization needs to do to justify paying its "key personnel" over $150,000. Not going to be a problem for us any time soon.

It seemed like a longish day where I got little accomplished.

Ray and I came home, let the dogs out, and I sat in the sun on the porch watching Cu while he made supper. With my laptop. Turns out there is someone who may be interested in adopting Cu, so that is great. Except it made me sad. And my parents are coming home today, probably driving straight through from Norma's. In the rain. I am concerned about the tone of my Dad's email that he is so anxious to get home, even though I am glad they like it here.

Potluck and choir and a long phone conversation with Molli.