Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Usual breakfast at the cafeteria. Sent out suggested computer requirements for fall to the student computing committee. Updated current students schedules, news, and calendar—the School of Medicine electives schedule still isn't available like I had thought. Poster project revisions, sent comps to Chris for review. Sent Mark and Bruce our list of e-mail names for the P1 and P2 student e-mail migration on Thursday. Notified students who chose non-standard e-mail names whether we accepted their suggestions or not. Updated a fraternity listserv for a student. Ena had a brilliant idea about the fridge and water cooler. The power to the outlet they were on had disappeared when we all arrived at work yesterday. Ena suggested we use a different outlet which was nearby. I tested it, and it worked, so we remaneuvered the cables accordingly and I notified the staff. Created PDF finals of the poster project for Chris to take to Kinko's. Met with Cindy briefly to discuss a handful of issues. Notified staff about the new fax machine in the student lounge. Update curriculum pages based on feedback from Chris, sent them to Cindy for review. Updated faculty page and admin pages to correct Betty-ann's title. Lunch: salad from the cafeteria. Followed up on a P3 student who didn't seem to complete the e-mail migration. Met with a student who had reported problems receiving listserv messages. Proposed a followup project planning meeting. Updated prospective students calendar for Joel. Updated the electives schedule for Debrah. Installed Firefox 1.0.2 and Office Updates for some users. Patrick and I went to Galen's birthday party at his place. We gave Peter a ride over. Bryan, Dave, Emery, Eric, Jonny, Duane, Joe, Yan, Ian, Charles, Jesse, Greg, Antonio, Patrick, Steve, John. Andy was reported to have been ill, and Scott was taking care of him, so they couldn't attend. Galen baked his own cake (!)—a variation on black forest that looked and tasted like a professional pastry chef's, and we also enjoyed some ice wine he brought back from his weekend in Toronto. I'd never had ice wine before—it was very sweet, slightly syrupy, highly delicious.