Tuesday, July 29, 2003
Had trouble sleeping. Woke up around 4:30 AM, I think. Couldn't get back to sleep until after 6. Woke up again around 8:50 AM and amazingly got dressed, made a lunch, and caught the 9:10 bus. Melissa brought in several dozen dahlias from her patch of garden space in Golden Gate Park. The flowers are so beautiful that it's hard not to smile when you look at them. Several, in particular, are quite large—big-as-your-head large. Everyone in the office got a personal bouquet for his or her desk. Took photos of the Bowl of Hygeia Trophy. Updated graduation ceremony pages to include the recently decided date: Friday, May 14, 2004. Reworked leftside navigation to use the CSS display:block method which Simon Coggins wrote about on evolt.org. Needed to do this anyway to make the templates more efficient for the student directory project. Chatted with Mike Webb about our student directory project. He said we'd be able to get both the data we need and the authentication hook I've been seeking. Lunch at desk: fresh cherries, leftover cheddar and sage muffin, two peanut butter sandwiches. CD-ROM preparation. Alerted Nancy Heller to broken URLs in the Campus Calendar site (which we import data from). Phi Delta Chi Web site has been down, so I sent around e-mails to figure out whether they want to restore the site or not. Dinner at home with Patrick: pizza from the freezer, salad with spinach and basil in cowgirl ranch dressing ("Now with 20% more cowgirl!"). Watched Back to the Future on DVD. It was fun seeing it again. Something I hadn't noticed before (or didn't remember I noticed): in the first few seconds of the opening scene: the clock with the man hanging from the clock's arms. I remembered the school judge with the megaphone was some cameo, but I guessed incorrectly it was Bill Murray. (It was Huey Lewis instead.) Fun to see how old all the 80's scenes looked—e.g., the mirror sunglasses Marty has on after the guitar blast in the opening scene, the references to sodas nobody sees anymore: Tab and Pepsi Free.