Friday, February 6, 2004

Research on certification programs. Helped Chris by e-mail with Eudora errors. Changes to admissions section for James. Lunch at home by myself: egg noodles with egg, baby bok choy, garlic, ginger, fish cake. Dinner at home with Patrick: stir-fried vegetables, teriyaki chicken, rice. Chatted with Lani and Rob -- we decided to not visit them tomorrow because Matthew was getting over croup and I did not want to risk Patrick catching it. (He gets sick easier than I do.) Patrick and I watched America's Test Kitchen -- they had a show about jambalaya. Patrick seemed to think they got most of the things right, though I cringed that they chose to use canned tomatoes. We also watched a gay Chinese film called Happy Together -- a story about a dsyfunctional relationship involving lots of cigarette smoking and booze drinking. I walked out about halfway and went to the bedroom to read from Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson instead -- too much arguing! We couldn't tell if it was in Cantonese or Mandarin -- Patrick thinks it was a little of both. Part of it took place in Argentina, so there was a fair amount of Spanish in it, too.