Friday, November 19, 2004

Reinstalled Acrobat because nothing would happen when I tried to create a PDF in Word. Staff survey meeting. Interview reply work for James. Joel and I went to the Transgender Remembrance Day event at UCSF. We were treated to the wonderfully moving singing Transcendence Gospel Choir and we heard key speakers talk about the current state of trans issues: writer and founder of the Day of Remembrance Gwen Smith and activist Sylvia Guerrero, the mother of Gwen Araujo. Afterwards, I treated Joel to lunch at You See Sushi. Service was not very good—I only tipped 75 cents on a $13 meal. Unfortunately, this is somewhat typical for You See Sushi. At 2:37 PM today Joel walks into my office and hands me a letter postmarked November 8, 2004 sent from Industry, California. The return address shows that it's from my mom and dad. Mom handwrote the address and misspelled San Francisco as San Fransico. It's also my old office address (incomplete), so that explains the delay.