If that portion of their costs are going up 4 percent and total revenues are going up 2 percent, then you've got to find other places in the budget to cut. Costs are growing faster than allowable revenues.

It's been going on for a long enough time that you say it's not just a short-term anomaly. There's something going on here.

It's one indication that maybe we're not moving ahead as fast as everyone else.

If it's time to party, it's time for hip hop. I love Drake, Jay-Z, Kanye. If I'm chilling at home though, I'm listening to Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, Radiohead, DJ Shadow. I also listen to a lot of classical.

And so I was scared. I was scared of my own sexual hunger, which felt so secretive and uncharted, and I was scared of the sexual hunger of boys, which felt so vivid and overt, and I was terribly uncertain of the relationships between sex and power and value, which seemed so merged and hard to tease apart. In the midst of all that, I didn't exactly loathe my body, or feel ashamed of it, but I was deeply ashamed of my fear, which felt disabling and immature and woefully, painfully uncool, a terrible secret, evidence of some profound failing and ignorance on my part. Other girls, or so I imagined, knew what to do, how to use their power, how to derive pleasure from it, and in contrast, I felt not only freakish but isolated, as though I was standing outside a vital, defining loop.

Making sure our senatorial slate was able to run has been our priority all along. I'm glad we could reach a resolution to actually achieve this goal.