What Barb said...

Two days after the election...two months before he has any actual power, Obama is bad for the economy. Not the lack of oversight and rampant greed has screwed into the ground? Really?

It's certainly possible, if stockholders think Obama's policies aren't going to encourage growth (or indeed if they think they will encourage growth, but less so than McCain's). That the crisis was permitted to happen in an environment of inadequate regulation doesn't really factor into it - that's done. (Trying to price stocks is a forward-looking venture.)

It emphatically doesn't matter that Obama's not in office yet. It's a done deal now, they know it's going to affect the future outlook.

Nonetheless, I doubt his election was a very strong influence here, simply because there was such little doubt about it. If the market has any jitters about Obama, it should mostly have been priced in before the election.

California has succeeded in pissing off Hubby, especially with the news that current legal marriages may be declared void. He's wondering if there are any other interesting legal questions that could be put into action, since such things seem to be so fluid these days. For example, it used to be legal in this country to hunt Mormons. The feds paid a bounty for them. In this day and age, however, Hubby recommends paintballs and fliers as the weaponry, if the Hunt-a-Mormon law has failed to be properly removed from the books.

Perhaps it's time to revisit all the laws that have been allowed to go by the wayside. Hubby also wonders if the Emancipation Proclamation was ever ratified by all the states. Otherwise, our new president elect should look to his status as a free man, or is he loose property?

So, my Hubby is on a tear now. He has a fearsome mind when he starts in on things. He has a very view of what falls under "traditional" values. His traditions tend to go back to things like the Dark Ages and Viking longboats.

I am skipping and skimming and tumbling over posts to let someone know that I had a really wonderful meeting with the Associate Dean for Academics and the Associate Dean for Finance at my job, and they were really wonderful and supportive, and listened to my ideas and comments on how to improve my department (which is currently just me!) I asked for the meeting and I prepared a challenges and opportunities statement and they treated me like a professional. I was very candid with them about the craziness that was happining with my Big!Boss and I have been SO reassured that my job is not on the line. This is the best I have felt in months about work related stuff-- because although I am an independant worker I was in way over my head-- I should not be deciding nursing curriculum as a person with a BA in theatre and english lit!

I also found out that fired Big!Boss knew for months that although credit bearing classes would be reporting to the Associate Dean for academics, there was no plan at all to change my role in supporting them, so I was crazy worried for nothing!

I am happy and proud of myself-- and I sort of feel that "Change that we can believe in" is a theme of my life right now-- inpolitics and in work (although the Prop 8 defeat just killed me). And, as someone in bandom, I do have to give a big shout out to Fall Out Boy who donated $50,000 to defeat Prop 8.

HMOG, the guy my brother is interviewing with out in Frederick soon? FREAKING GORGEOUS.

Even my brother is all "yeah, that jaw!"

Nice work, Sophia!

That's fantastic, Sophia! And good for you for making it happen.

Historically, the markets fall after an election.

Sophia, that is great news.

Sophia, go you!

Thanks so much guys! It is hard to remember in the middle of working with challenging people that those people sometimes inadvertently improve you-- my crazy boss at the Children's Theatre just out of school taught me that it wasn't just enough to do your job, people had to like you. My crazy boss at my last job gave me the opportunity to meet, work with and make a good impression on people all over the university, especially compared with her crazy impression. And losing my good direct Boss and having to work with crazy!big boss gave me some real confidence in making good and right decision on my own, because I so did not want big!boss to enter the arena and make things worse. nfortunately, my good direct boss could tell me 100 times that my decisions were good and I did not need to run them by her, but it took having no one to run them by to realize that I can make the right decision.