Wednesday, January 22, 2003
Oh, it's so hard to get up. Woke at 6:30 AM. Three meetings today. Meeting 1: Sean Norton, Lorie Rice, and Susie Levings to discuss the possibility of Sean working on the Center for Consumer Self Care site. Meeting 2: Websteering Committee to discuss the Web Developers Meeting next week. Meeting 3: Susie to discuss Web issues. All meetings went well. In between meetings, I shopped for a fast color laser printer for the office. So far it looks like the Xerox 7300DN simply because speed is our primary concern and this appears to be the fastest color laser on the market now. Lunch with Joel at Pomelo. We hadn't been to Pomelo in a while—I was in the mood for noodles but also grains, so it was a perfect choice. They had a new menu since December 1. We sat at the counter and while we ate Joel shared his story of meeting Miss America 2003 at the Rite Aid Health and Beauty Fair. He then pondered the question, "What if Miss America got a mullet after being crowned?" While leaving work to meet Patrick at Muddy Waters on Church then go to Azteca for dinner, my left eye started feeling very irritated. I thought I had scratched the surface of it earlier in the day when I had trouble with my contact lens, but around 6:00 PM the irritation suddenly got worse. In pain, I made my way on the N-Judah to Church Street, found Patrick, and we walked directly to the emergency room at Davies Medical Center a few blocks away. I got checked in around 7:00 PM, and it was over an hour before I got to see the doctor—it was a busy night. The diagnosis turned out to be conjunctivitis, so I was sent home with an ointment to apply 4 times a day and the prediction that I would be better within 2 days. We left the medical center around 9:00 PM and had dinner at Orphan Andy's instead of Azteca as we originally planned. We both had fried shrimp and french fries. Patrick had an iced tea. The bill before tax and tip was US$23. We took a cab home—Castro to Parkside was about US$15. Patrick was home today to receive our delivery from Walgreens.com: macaroni and cheese, Twizzlers, Ester-C (acid-free vitamin C), 0.75-inch Scotch tape refills, and Orville Redenbacher's Light Popcorn.