Friday, February 6, 2004
Research on certification programs. Helped Chris by e-mail with Eudora errors. Changes to admissions section for James. Lunch at home by myself: egg noodles with egg, baby bok choy, garlic, ginger, fish cake. Dinner at home with Patrick: stir-fried vegetables, teriyaki chicken, rice. Chatted with Lani and Rob—we decided to not visit them tomorrow because Matthew was getting over croup and I did not want to risk Patrick catching it. (He gets sick easier than I do.) Patrick and I watched America's Test Kitchen—they had a show about jambalaya. Patrick seemed to think they got most of the things right, though I cringed that they chose to use canned tomatoes. We also watched a gay Chinese film called Happy Together—a story about a dsyfunctional relationship involving lots of cigarette smoking and booze drinking. I walked out about halfway and went to the bedroom to read from Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson instead—too much arguing! We couldn't tell if it was in Cantonese or Mandarin—Patrick thinks it was a little of both. Part of it took place in Argentina, so there was a fair amount of Spanish in it, too.