Monday, February 9, 2009
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Notified applicants to our digital asset librarian job posting that the posting has been withdrawn. Faxed a document to Susie and Eric D. Removed references to San Diego APPEs from our website. Attempted to sign up for a class through the UCSF training website but failed because I couldn't figure out how to specify budget numbers other than the default. (I couldn't even tell what the default was set to.) Minor web edit for JWG. Flickr work. Blog and Flickr work. Helped student VT with login problems. Worked on the email setup page: icon generation. Dinner: mac and cheese, pig chops, steamed peas. Dessert: chocolate sorbet, peach sorbet. Watched Arrested Development on DVD borrowed from Eric V: Extended Pilot, Top Banana. These two shows had some very funny parts, but it mostly fell flat with me. I couldn't understand the shaky camera work. Jump cuts used to create humor felt like a frequent crutch. Situations were too absurd—e.g., in Top Banana when the housekeeper rode the bus with her cargo, what happened to the hot dog stand. In Top Banana, both Patrick and I knew what the man in prison meant long before it was revealed. The show has unbelievably superlative ratings on imdb, but this show isn't really for me or Patrick. Not recommended.