Friday, April 19, 2002
I made live a bunch of Web site changes: the list of LISTSERVs page, the new Contact Us pages, updated calendars for current students and prospective students, and more. I updated our links to press releases so that instead of showing a jumbled mess they are now sorted by date, most recent at the top, and only press releases within the past year are shown. Dinner with Patrick and Jenny Sampson and her friend Kevin. She invited us to dinner at her mom's house in Laurel Heights / Presidio Terrace. We brought a bottle of Italian wine: Alfeo Bolgheri Rosso 1999. We met Jenny's childhood friends Kevin and Leah, who were both great company. In the kitchen while Jenny and Kevin prepared the meal, we sipped drinks and told tales of our recent events—what most people call "catching up." We dined with candles and low lighting in the dining room and continued our discussions: childhood stories, cities we knew, restaurants we remembered. Dinner was a spinach salad, bread with olive oil, grilled chicken with polenta and sliced roma tomatoes, the wine Patrick and I brought. After dinner, Jenny gave us a tour of the house she grew up in. It's 3 floors, very tastefully appointed. Such a vast amount of space in San Francisco seemed a luxury to simply walk through. Jenny and Kevin are house-sitting while Jenny's mom is in London visiting Jenny's sister Juliet, who is nearing the final stages of her pregnancy. When we decided to leave, it was so late that Jenny decided to give us a ride home in her mom's Kompressor—a welcome treat. We got home and Patrick found a note from my mom on our doorstep.