Monday, August 19, 2002
Met with Susie about the Web. Spent most of today at the library making the CD-ROM of software for new students entering next month. The big news at the Web workers meeting today was that Jill Garland is leaving her position with the School of Medicine to work on UC Berkeley's Library Web site. Congratulations, Jill! Dinner at home with Patrick: fried salmon with roasted vegetable ravioli in a cream cheese sauce. Worked on emergency cards to store in my wallet. Patrick met with Jason today to review a story Jason wrote. He says he is seeing improvement in Jason's work that seems promising. Today was also the first day of classes for Patrick. He's taking Chinese and fencing. Today was his Chinese class. He reported that he was one of two white people in the class; the rest were Asian. He also heard some of the students speaking Chinese before the class started, and they remained despite the instructor's efforts to weed out those whose knowledge of Chinese clearly exceeded the requirements of the class. His instructor is the same instructor Sam had for first-year Chinese. Patrick said of her, "I've never seen someone wear so many shades of pink and purple before." Today he learned how to say "I'm here" in Chinese as part of the roll-taking process.