Monday, September 13, 2004
Oatmeal with banana and brown sugar. First day of orientation! Got introduced to the new class. Lunch: bought sandwich innards from the cafeteria and inserted them in a croissant leftover from this morning's breakfast offerings for the new students. Also had a banana. Helped Joel set up a laptop presentation for one of his speakers. Helped Melissa make decisions about buying a new laptop. Began reviewing the Photoshop file Martha had sent me for our home page redesign. Susie cancelled our meeting today—she has other things to work on. Burned CD-ROMs with archives of the website to free up disk space on the server to resolve problems with the backup process running out of space on the tape. Coded new web pages describing new photocopy services that Kim is offering down the hall, sent the pages to her for review. Met with (fill in later) about the student lounge. Dinner at home with Patrick: Mimolette and Somerdale Red Dragon mustard seed cheeses with crackers, pan-fried local sea bass with Dijon and rosemary, steamed broccoli, homemade mashed potatoes. Finished editing fiction and poetry for Lodestar, handed them off to Patrick for review. The iced tea glasses we ordered a few days ago arrived. They aren't exactly like the ones we had before, but it doesn't really matter. Chatted with Chris De Lay—a rare moment seeing him online.