Thursday, September 21, 2006
This morning I woke up at 4:30 AM, a lot earlier than I should have. As I was awakening, I sifted through the things I had been dreaming about, and I was shocked when I came across the memory of a letter from Zaire requesting my immediate assistance to reserve a $100 hotel room. Reflexively, I thought DELETE and my mind somehow got rid of the thought. Immediately afterwards, of course, I was again shocked when I realized that scam spam had worked its way into my dreams. Where is the justice? Odd, though, that it involved only $100 (presumably U.S. dollars)—perhaps they were extraordinarily poor or stupid scammers. I tried to get back to sleep, but usually in cases like these I cannot, so I got up and wrote in my journal and did my morning run: 30 minutes. Weight training: squat, leg lift, crunch, bridge, tricep extension. Usual oatmeal breakfast. Work. Mostly catching up on e-mail. Shared my 8-page handout with the student computing committee. Installed iTunes 7 and Quicktime 7.1.3 for Joel. Answered e-mail how to questions for Joel. Updated schedules for Lucia. Lunch with Joel at Ten and he dished out the current gossip. New news story for Susie. Met briefly with student SL. Subsite redesign work—almost done with this project. Tweaked backups. Dinner at home by myself: turkey burgers.