I worked almost 8 hours yesterday, bookkeeping and the mailing list mainly. I feel caught up at the moment, but tonight there is a board meeting, so I will go in this morning and print off some more reports that are current.

A guy that I knew slightly years ago at Ecology has given substantial amounts in previous years. I mentioned to Meredith that he gave us $1000 last year in early September and she wrote him a letter asking for a donation this year, which he promptly sent. So that made us both feel good.

I printed the labels for the business mailing we're doing. It was very easy from GiftWorks.

One of our residents has a huge swelling on her face. She went to the emergency room and they said it was a spider bite. She doesn't know if she got it at the shelter or not. They had prescribed antibiotics and pain medication, but she can't afford to get them filled and hadn't said anything about it. There are a couple organizations that help with prescriptions, and we would probably pay for it if they didn't. I called the Nurses Clinic and they said to send her right over.

I had lunch with Andy and enjoyed it. She told a horror story about how the school district reclassified all the resource coordinators that had tenure and then fired them a year later, as soon as they could. In the meantime, they had to "cross-train" some other (newer,  younger, less expensive) employees in other programs, like Early Headstart and reading. There were four of them who had been there since I was, about 15 or more years. She has applied for other jobs at the school district with no success. They were told at the end of last year. She and Jack spend their summers in Canada, so she can't really look for a job that is not with the school district.

Ray and I came home, ate supper, and went to rehearsal. Pretty fun. Captain and Vanessa are in Atlanta at a motel, getting ready to fly to Boston.