Friday, June 24, 2011
Breakfast: Drew's pumpkin bread—delicious! Also, 12 ounces of nonfat milk. Rode Muni to work. Followup with Bill M on student email accounts migration. Listserv management. Chatted briefly with Sierra A about calendaring and Student Inside Guide. Helped Jamie K with a question about PDF security. Quick lunch to go from Cafe Bellini: veggie pizza slice, fruit salad. Met with student PPW about listserv management. One of our fraternities had a student managing the listserv; I did not know. Lots of maintenance for the 2 shared office laptops and my computer. Assessment work. Will picked me up at work. As we walked from 5th and Mission Garage to XYZ, at the westmost entrance to Yerba Buena Gardens, a woman asked us if we knew where the Novellus Theater was. We did not, and when I used the Maps application on my iPhone it could not find it, either. We wished her luck. Pre-dinner drink at XYZ with Will. Service was slow; the bar was packed, busy. We finally got our drinks ($8 specials), and they were tasty. Walked to Le Charm. Along the way Will and I encountered the Novellus Theater—the street address is 701 Mission Street, but the main foot entrance to the theater is on the north side of Howard Street just southwest of 3rd Street. I've lived in San Francisco for 10 years and this is the first I have heard of this theater being called Novellus Theater. (I learned from the web that it's affiliated with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA).) Dinner at Le Charm with Richard, Drew, Danny, Romy, Phil for Richard's birthday. We had to wait about 20 minutes past our reservation, but they brought us a complimentary aperitif while we waited and both food and service was excellent. Phil brought a large bottle of wine, and they charged us $40 for corkage.