I'm glad this week is over
Taxes: I'm back to poverty. Wealth was fun, and wealth was nice while it lasted. It took me a couple days to deal with reality, even though I knew it was coming.
IPT Letter of Inquiry: The IPT acknowledged receipt of it---The Stock Market Game Program: Investor Education Across Alaska---BUT they don't fund credit classes. Panic, all the classes I teach are for UAA credit; otherwise the teachers don't show up. Well, it was a communication problem. To them Credit meant credit card credit, how to protect your credit, etc. IPT funds only investor education not financial or credit education. Everything is currently fine, now that they understand my CREDIT means university credit. I think they will be asking for my full proposal. This consumed a couple of my days before I could connect with the correct person at IPT.
I heard Dr. Edward Prescott speak Thursday noon about social security. He is the 2004 co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics. Thanks, Alaska Council on Econnomic Education for this opportunity.
I took a new dyslexic student this week to teach to read and write---a great fellow in his early 50s.
I've been reading At the Abyss by former Secretary of the Air Force, Thomas C. Reed. A great book and an easy read. So interesting to read the inside stories of the cold war, a little bit about Viet Nam---Air Force lessons learned---the development of technology, plus a dose of reality about nuclear warfare. He will be speaking at the World Affairs Council this coming Friday noon.
This afternoon I went to the museum for the pottery makers show. I bought an abstract vase to use on my dining table. I also looked at the Denise and Samuel Wallace jewelry exhibit. Their work is truly marvelous.
The house is clean, the washing caught up, bills mostly paid---I'm ready for a new week. And if someone asked what I had been doing, my answer would probably be, "Oh, not much!"
7:46:42 PM 
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