Friday, December 9, 2011
Rode Muni to work. Picked up my free staff appreciation breakfast at the cafeteria. I saw the dean and the chancellor and other executives welcoming staff. Breakfast offerings included scrambled eggs with (chives?), deluxe sausage, juice, coffee, tea, 2 kinds of small muffins, and fruit salad (persimmon, pomegranate, grapes, apple). Carolers sang, and the cafeteria halls were fully decked. As in previous years, the whole process is a bit like running the gauntlet, but it seems to get better each year. Linkchecking, Flickr work, kiosk work. Share folder management. (Tip: to delete files that OS 10.6.8 refuses to delete because they are locked, get properties on them (Cmd+Shift+I), unlock them, then delete them.) Today is Lynn's last day, so I completed with her my part of the paperwork for her exit. ICRD work. More InDesign work on a secret project for Susie. Supp app project work in Drupal for Joel. Followup with legal name changes. Uploaded a video to the School's YouTube account. Prepared account handoff information for Robin S, sent it to Eric for review and holding. Chatted with Victor from Facilities about the fruit fly problem in our office, notified office of the results. UCSF shuttle to Mission Bay. The School held its first achievement celebration at Mission Bay. For the event I created the slideshow, which changed slides every 12 seconds and was displayed on a large screen. I used InDesign, and a few people were impressed with the quality of the result. Most people don't know about any presentation tools other than PowerPoint. Unfortunately, InDesign is harder to learn and use than PowerPoint for the same task. I've been interested in learning how to make presentations in Apple Keynote but haven't had to yet. I feel that day is forthcoming, however, since Joel and Shirin and Cindy now all have iPad 2s. Susie, Eric, and I received gifts from the QBC and grad programs team. Mine was a copy of Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss. UCSF shuttle to Parnassus. Dropped off cameras, did a bit more work on the prospective students page. Rode Muni home. Read from Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss, found a grammatical error within the first minute of reading. Dinner at home: leftover cauliflower gratin, bread and butter, gingerbread spice tisane with sugar. Reorganized my Twitter lists to separate UCSF people from UCSF entities such as departments and units. Snack: stovetop popcorn, which turned out better-tasting than DIY microwave popcorn and DIY microwave popcorn with oil. And, all but one kernel popped!