Monday, July 7, 2003
Cindy and I met with Steve, the general contractor who is building our new offices on the 9th floor of the Medical Sciences building in space that Biochem people left a few months ago. Steve is very friendly, and we both are confident that he can build what Cindy has envisioned. Her work on the project is really to be commended—it's obvious that she has taken it to heart and has goals in mind for creating a much better working environment out of what is really not much more space than we have now. Cindy invited me along to ensure I was in the loop about the buildout of my office and of the techy things like data ports and electricity. Turns out my new office will be about 72 square feet—one inch wider and 2 feet longer than my current 60-square-foot office. Admissions changes for James. We're close to being done with this project—hopefully by the end of the week after he and I run through final reviews and some testing. Met with Susie about Web projects: a quick meeting because we both have too much to do—just 35 minutes! Set up Melissa with Eudora e-mail on her computer. Very late lunch at Nan King Road Bistro: #1, not spicy, hot jasmine tea. Left work at 8:25 PM (I arrived around 9:50 AM). Late dinner at home by myself. Patrick went to a kickboxing class this evening but left me some beef stew on the stove. Yum! Converted alias files from tcsh format to bash format since discovering last month that 5dollarhosting took away tcsh from me. Grrr! While eating dinner, listened to random selections on npr.org: Cole Porter, The Beethoven 7th, Afro-Funk, Aussie Bible, Madonna, Alex Lo Dico, New Leviathan Oriental Fox-Trot Orchestra.