libkitty, sorry to hear it has been so bad. I just get out of breath easily, and I can control that by moving slowly

Welcome back home, Nora. Next time try for a SE Florida visit!

Health~ma all round. We are still coughing and stuff, but not really sick. The ick just doesn't want to leave completely.

Thanks beth. I shouldn't complain, as for the most part it's getting better. It's just getting better a lot more slowly than I would like, and I had big plans for this weekend. Not, you know, fun ones, but I had planned to really get caught up on the apartment. Like the bug, I'm just sick of being sick. Unlike the bug, I don't have nearly as good of a reason to whine. And yet...

I'm home from visit with Uncle. A couple bags of books and other misc things from the fastly emptying house.

So, um. When I got home, I had an e-mail waiting for me informing me of a neighborhood rally tomorrow. It appears there is a HUGE concentration of registered sex offenders two blocks up the street. 13 in one building! SCARY! Vast majority charged with "LEWD OR LASCIVIOUS ACTS WITH CHILD UNDER 14 YEARS" Thankfully I'm well over 14, with no kids, or a woman for that matter. But apparently there are (2) day care centers within 500 feet of the place. Ya, I'm a little freaked.

Sheesh! That's pretty freaky, Omnis.

Poor sick Buffistas need to not be sick anymore.

P.S. I hit a productivity wall and have been sitting around not getting much accomplished for the past four hours. I still have 14 essays to read/grade and some close reading prep to do for class discussion. I should really be asleep soon. Dilemma.

KT, yee gads! You are up late. Get to bed soon.

But apparently there are (2) day care centers within 500 feet of the place. Ya, I'm a little freaked.

Then there's not need for a rally is there? I would think that it's a violation of their release conditions to live there.

Then there's not need for a rally is there? I would think that it's a violation of their release conditions to live there.

one would think, right? Crazy! The rally appears to be wanting to update the laws about clustering:

[2nd district council member] am concerned that the California Department of Corrections and Los Angeles County Probation officers may be “clustering” sex offenders in particular locations throughout Long Beach in partnership with certain landlords as a means of managing their caseloads. Such practice subjects a neighborhood to an inordinate number of individuals with potentially violent histories, thus undermining any sense of community while creating an air of fear and intimidation.

And yet, they have to live somewhere, and it's often kinda hard to find somewhere not close to kids. Personally, I'd rather that the police know where they are. Places where they've had rallies and forced them out of areas, they've ended up dropping off the radar, because there's literally no place in the state where they're allowed to both work and live. How does that help anyone?

When I was in law school, I wrote a research paper on this topic. I think my conclusion was that hounding sex offenders helps no one for the reasons mentioned above. But now that I'm a parent, I would do whatever I could do get any registered sex offenders away from my neighborhood or where my kids went to school. It's not really something I can defend, because I know they paid their debt to society, but the idea of one of my kids dying at the hands of a sex offender is one of my worst nightmares and recidivism rates are high which makes me think that I'm not being paranoid.

Which is all my way of saying that I'm glad I don't live in omnis's neighborhood.