Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Tiny newsberries

.....This morning, I took the Sunny Girl to my vet ($49), who sent us up the road to a specialist in Irvine. That guy insisted on keeping the Tiny Beast (4 lbs. 3 oz.!) over night ($1200).
.....I dropped by school (Irvine Valley College) and talked to every spook in that ghost town.
.....It looks like Karima Feldhus, former Dean of Humanities & Languages/Fine Arts, will be returning, this time as the dean of Fine Arts/Business. She left IVC at the end of the Fall for a gig at Long Beach City College. I don't think she's happy there.
.....It’ll be great to have her back. Naturally, the board has to approve the appointment, but there’s no reason to think they won’t. Unless Mathur gets involved. That’s always possible, even though it’s none of his goddam business.
.....We’re pretty much sans deans here at IVC, you know.
.....It’s no secret that Bob Kopecky, until recently the Provost of ATEP, will be joining the faculty at IVC this Fall. He’ll be working in the Learning Center.
.....Speaking of ATEP (i.e., the Advanced Technology and Education Park, in Tustin), I keep hearing that things are FUBAR with the ATEP confabs. Is Camelot a buttnugget? If so, plan B will look nothing like plan A, and SOCCCD will look like SHIT once again P.D.Q. (The Young Americans want to put up their tents and park their clown cars at ATEP. Is that part of plan B?)
.....As you know, some of our trustees (and trustee Tom Fuentes in particular, who has philosophical misgivings) are unhappy with Big ATEP. When, a few months ago, things got rocky Big-ATEPwise, the board was barely able to scrape up a green light for continued efforts.
.....In the end, could be that our Tustin campus, after ten years of development, will amount to a small cluster of classrooms on the corner of Redhill and Valencia with a few hundred students learning about plastic molding and bedpans.
.....BTW: I asked folks at the district to make available a map of the seven district areas (corresponding to the seven trustees) and they were very accommodating. A very detailed map is now available here (see "boundary map" link) at the district website. Thanks, R and T!

Pictured: (i) Sunny Girl, yesterday, (ii) the old chapel at the former Tustin Marine Helicopter Station (now ATEP).

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

Chunk.

Pet insurance. What was the $1200 for?

Roy Bauer said...

Tests. Possibly a cancer of the blood cells. Well know for sure tomorrow.

Anonymous said...

Sorry Sunny Girl. How is she doing?

Roy Bauer said...

I left her at the vet at about noon. She was doing well then. I left a call a little while ago and will hear how she's doing soon.

Roy Bauer said...

Just heard from the vet. The Tiny Beast doing well: she ate well and seemed "comfortable." She's been given a steroid. Should hear about the tests by noon tomorrow.

Now that she's a 4-pound cat, she encounters noone who does not ooh and ah about her cutitude. She seems to be a favorite, owing to tininess. Plus those big green eyes. Noone can believe that she's 18 years old.

Long live the Weasel.

Anonymous said...

in my backyard, the ranger in the ranger drives around, snooping, and asking questions. newlywed couple across the street had a drunken side quest at 4 in the morning to the hangar. I suppose they haven't been the only ones. took some photos, and it didn't go over well.

Anonymous said...

Please tell us how Sunny is? Is she ok? Thanks...

Roy Bauer said...

Just heard from the vet. No "obvious" cancer cells found in what they took out of the Sunny Girl yesterday. She's responding to yesterday's steroids well--good appetite, etc. So, for now, no surgery, and we'll see how she does on the steroids for the next week and a half/two weeks.

I'm goin' to get her now!

Anonymous said...

Blog about the map and how it gerrymandered. Look at area 6 and area 2. why is area 2 divides Tustin?

Roy Bauer said...

As I recall, back in about 1995(?), there was some redefining of area lines the upshot of which was that Harriett Walther was no longer within SOCCCD's area. That's the reason, I think, she ceased being on the board (she lived in Santa Ana).

I also seem to recall that she supported the redrawing of lines, despite its consequences for her, which is an indication that there were good reasons for it. No gerrymandering.

Anonymous said...

Sunny Girl is 18, Wow. How long have you had her?

Anonymous said...

Chunk: ask "100 miles down the road" to get you a copy of the San Diego Grand Jury report on community college districts in San Diego County. You think your district has problems.

Anonymous said...

Wow Chunk! Sorry to read about Sunny. That really sucks. Any news since you last wrote that you were taking her to the vet to find out what the diagnosis is? In any case,my original comment was that Sunny has the prettiest green eyes, but good God that other takes precident. How old is she now?:-)

Anonymous said...

Oops Chunk! I should have read the other posts first. I am glad to read that Sunny is okay. That sure must have been scary though. In any case, how old is she now?:-)

Roy Bauer said...

Well, she's 18. She's on steroids. They don't know what's wrong with her, though she's doing better. The steroids help--though not this morning.

Robbi N. said...

18 years old! That's quite an advanced age for a kitty. I agree about pet insurance, though they rip you off most of the time too, in my experience.
Good news about Karima, though I'm sorry to hear her job closer to home didn't work out.

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