Wednesday, February 27, 2002
Met with Susie and Martha: some site review, but mostly template revisions. We also talked of the sad state of the UCSF home page and what we were going to do about it. Late this afternoon is when the templates finally start to look like they're in their final stages. Lunch by myself at Nan King Road Bistro. This time I deviated from my usual (#1 not spicy) and got #6 not spicy: chicken and prawns lunch special. Made screen snapshots of PharmAdMIT 4.0 Build 0004 for Chris. Instant dinner: sirloin of beef, green beans, garlic mashed potatoes with soy milk, dinner rolls from Grace Bakery—mmm mmm mmm. Went to sleep right after dinner. Woke at midnight itching my eyes, then got up and updated the journal. Patrick intended to finish his revisions for Sections 1 and 2 tonight—I don't know if he finished, as he worked more after I went to bed. I missed tonight's supposedly spectacular perigee of the moon. I couldn't sleep, so from 1:30 am to 3:00 am I reread Second Island from the beginning, making edits along the way. Patrick had been hoping I'd be able to look at it before he sends it off to Mitchell. I make a few changes—mostly missing commas, as Patrick isn't fond of using them. Some of the sentences seem new to me, so I suspect he's added some here and there to the early chapters. I'd made it as far as "I'd have my walk without distractions" which is now the middle of chapter 3 before deciding to try to sleep for 2 more hours, having to wake earlier than normal for a 7:30 am meeting with Cindy and some students about how to provide student contact information on the Web while maintaining students' privacy. My eyes burn rawly from too much itching, and I can't help but think that Dr. Tuffanelli probably didn't realize the consequences of his actions yesterday.