Monday, November 24, 2003
Put together RFOs for the student lounge computer and computer arms. Initiated a request to obtain scans of our first-year students from PhotoBooks. Spent most of the day researching canonical naming schemes and issues for e-mail addresses for a draft of questions for the pending itsa to exchange migration. Late lunch at desk: Panda Express and a SoBe Drive beverage. Link checking. Dinner at home with Patrick: spinach ricotta tortellini in Vidalia onion and roasted garlic red sauce. I started reading the large print version of The Lovely Bones today. I don't really need large print, but I saw this on the shelf and wanted to read it so I snagged it and took it with me to the library checkout. I finished the first chapter just as the 66 bus got to 9th and Judah—the book starts out with a bang, and I'm hooked. James drove me home on the 7:30 bus. Got a birthday card from my parents today. Why is it postmarked as coming from the City of Industry? Watched The Night of the Hunter (1955) on DVD from the library. For about 10 minutes. And then we took it out of the player and watched The Color Purple (1985), which neither of us had seen before. I cried at the end, and Patrick said, "You don't cry watching movies." The back of the DVD box has a quote from a Jeffrey Lyons review: "A movie you'll never forget!" and he's so right. Patrick made a delicious devil's food chocolate bundt cake today, so we enjoyed slices of that during the movie.