There has been a giant game of "not it" being played at my work since about January. It concerns paying for things and those things bill monthly. Currently charges are upwards of $250K and we have just started one on one meetings with the people who need to be paying their share. First meeting we have? the guy pulls, NOT IT and goes on to say that one of the big bosses needs to be pulled in. While I appreciate the desire to protect departments against charges, we have documented that his employees are directly attached to these charges. Unhelpful award goes to him.

Ugh. msbelle, that rots.

Barb, WOOT WOOT!

We still have another 20 minutes of testing. And I have one paper set almost graded. Go team me!

RE: Rotovirus: Yeah. It's not surprising. And given that she has all her nutritional needs through a G-tube, she'll be fine. They'll monitor her. Poor boo indeed. For now she's in contact isolation which isn't much fun.

Exactly 1 month left of school.

In other news, I'm trying to figure out how to vote on lots of the props. We're in dire budget straits and I have such mixed feelings. I'm not sure what the lottery modernization will really do. I'm not sure giving schools more discretionary funding is good (rather than set asides that they can only use in certain ways programmatically). I do know getting rid of the First Five Funds seems not good and that I don't think legislators should get raises when there is no budget in place.

Other CA-istas with insight?

Ugh, msbelle. Unhelpful guy needs a clubbing. And, ye gods, $250K? That's appalling.

I need more coffee, though I'm not sure why. Matilda slept in her own crib all by herself all last night, which makes twice in the last ten nights, which is easily double her record for the previous ten months. I should be wide awake and rested and chipper, not an ass-dragging zombie.

yeah, it's ridic, but kinda not really all that bothersome to me. I am way too low on the totem to be the fixer.

poor Grace.

Kat, I have no idea on the props. Just got an email from a progressive activist group I usually respect recommending a blanket NO on all of them, which made me go, "Buh? Huh." More reading and thinking (and coffee) is in order.

Grace's G tube will probably help her at least a little; my cousin's kids, who weren't G tube babies, were knocked sideways by the virus and couldn't eat and keep anything in their systems long enough to do them any good; they only did as well as they did during the worst of the illness because they'd been sturdy babies with good fat reserves, and it still took almost a year before they were really solid and robust again. I'm glad she's protected against that.

Just got an email from a progressive activist group I usually respect recommending a blanket NO on all of them, which made me go, "Buh? Huh."

That doesn't surprise me. I think a lot of groups are taking the stand that the money involved was set aside for certain things and it shouldn't be touched.

Never mind that this state is essentially bankrupt.

I swear, I've never lived in a place that had more of a "money grows on trees" attitude than here.

I'm voting yes on everything because I seriously have no idea WTF the state is going to do to reach a compromise otherwise.

I'm voting yes on everything because I seriously have no idea WTF the state is going to do to reach a compromise otherwise.

This is where I am.

Same here. WE'RE BROKE, PEOPLE! Sadly, it's not looking too good for any of the measures, so I don't really know what's going to happen after that.

I blame Prop 13, along with the double whammy of two terms of Reagan as Governor followed by two terms as President, for all the state's financial woes. But, really, mostly Prop 13. I can't even imagine how different things would be here without it.