Thursday, May 15, 2003
Exercise. Eggs and sausage for breakfast. Met with Susie and Cindy about the style guide. They both think it's great and Susie wants to share it with the larger University committee she's on because they're attempting to work out exactly the same issues at the campus level. Sounded fine to me and Cindy. We also started talking about the PharmD Student Directory on the Web project but ran out of time. Microsoft Campus Agreement meeting at Toland Hall. Joel and Ena helped me hoard leftover snacks from the meeting at 2:00 PM. No one else was around to take them, so Taylor and Wayne said I could take them back to the office. Ena needed some convincing that it was okay to do. She said, "Would you please bring me back a cookie?" And I told her she should get off her lazy ass and help us bring back trays. We snagged two huge trays full of cookies—chocolate chip, peanut butter, oatmeal raisin, and chocolate with walnuts—and grapes and coconut bars and fruit bars. Then we went back and got the 3 cases of assorted beverages—Lemon Perrier, Snapple assortment, Crystal Geyser, and the standard soda cans. We felt so guilty walking off with so much stuff, but it wasn't like we were stealing. Indeed, we were doing someone a favor by taking it all away. I told everyone about how Adobe had (has?) Adobe Vultures—a nifty e-mail notification system to let people know where to go to eat leftover food from catered meetings. Started writing the push script—a shell script to mirror directories from our staging server to our live server. It's been a while since I did shell scripting—fun to get back into it again. Dinner at Chow on Church with Patrick to celebrate his last day of Mandarin class. We started with pork and shrimp wontons in an oil-based sauce which the deliverator said wasn't very hot at all but he lied. Patrick had roast chicken with mashed potatoes and asparagus, hot chocolate to drink. I had veggie lasagna with watercress, tropical green tea to drink. No dessert since I brought a bunch of the snagged cookies home with me. Patrick is getting the works for Issue 6 ready to hand off to me soon. Worked on frankfarm.com again tonight.