Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Usual oatmeal breakfast. Student computing committee meeting. Julia sent me e-mail about a new position at the library. Listserv maintenance. Arranged to have Eric provide instruction to students for web design. Answered questions from students LN and MR. Discovered a problem with the preview sessions page after Joel and Alyssa reported an anomaly. LGBT viz work. Purchases followup with Valerie. Updated P1 and electives schedules for Lucia. Laptop training with Carol. SSL VPN update for Chris. Lunch: salad from the cafeteria, Odwalla Super Protein Vanilla. Helped Carol set up the laptop for a presentation. LGBT viz meeting (left early). 1-on-1 with Cindy. Dentist: I accidentally broke my night guard a few weeks ago so this visit was to take new molds and have a new night guard made. Got a Jamba Juice afterwards. Back to work. Sent a surplus pickup request to Alyssa. Followup with students KB, QT, and ST. Took the N-Judah to go shopping downtown. It was one of those awful I-hate-Muni-enough-to-want-to-leave-San-Francisco days. When the train arrived at UCSF, the driver of the 2-car train did not automatically open all the doors and she forgot to leave all the doors openable so that we could press the button and the door would open. Consequently, there was a very long line to get in to the first door of the 2-car train because it was the only door you could get in. About a dozen or so people got on before someone told the driver that she forgot to open the doors and so she opened the doors. Since I was closest to the first car, I got on the first car, but of course there were no more seats in the first car but I could see there were plenty of seats in the 2nd car. I was tired from working all day and couldn't bear standing the whole way to Powell Street Station, so at the next stop, I decided to switch to the 2nd car and jumped out of the first car. But she closed the doors immediately after I left the first car and the external button on the 2nd car would not open the door probably because she again forgot to make the external buttons work. She drove off, and I was so mad at her but there is nothing you can do to right these Muni wrongs. I walked to Carl and Cole because I was mad and walking helped with that. I waited for the next train, which arrived in about 10 or 12 minutes. The train took me to Church and the driver said to get out if you were going downtown because this train was a J-Church train. I got out and walked to Market Street. No F cars visible. I went underground. Caught a train after a few minutes, and finally got downtown. I don't remember how long it took; I just remember being mad the whole way. Shopping: The Container Store (3M decorating clips, ironing organizer), mr hana (chicken boob bowl with brown rice substitution: $10.30), Lucky Kid (nothing fit), Lucky (bought nothing), H&M Boys (bought a pink polo shirt, a white knit top, and a brown v-neck sweater), Walgreen's (kleenex). Home late. Prepared the heater for filter retrofit.