Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Usual granola breakfast. The office celebrated Carol's birthday with bagels, fresh fruit, donut holes, juice. Reported that the Staff Portal was down to Doug C. Email transition followup for student GL. Helped student SY with a question about why everything is displayed in Chinese characters. Notified first-year students of some things I forgot to mention during my presentation last week. Sent Susie and Eric D the link to Joel's admissions blog (still under wraps for now). Responded to a student request for survey services (we have none). Helped Eric V with a question about mailbox too full. Resent the master student list to Cindy. Email transition followup for student GL. Response pads installation followup with Carol. Shared passwords with Eric D. Scanned a document for Cindy. Reviewed photos from Eric D's photo shoot of the new students—all looks well but they need to be winnowed and renamed. Lunch: used deli items from the cafeteria to make a bagel sandwich. Lucia reported a printing problem in the master student list, so I fixed that and made a few other adjustments and sent out a new copy to everyone. Helped student RM with login problems. Updated schedules for Lucia. Followup with Sierra A about the Kappa Psi website. Answered a question about what is and isn't allowed on our listservs. Helped student PE with a question about accounts. Helped student KS with how to find how much email disk space was being used and how to use Apple Mail with UCSF email. Chatted with Cindy about the quality of paper-to-PDF scans from our Brother fax machine. Helped student CL with campus LDAP. Announced new formmail option to Jim S and Debbie A. Paul's birthday at Nihon Whiskey Lounge. Patrick and I had luxury mojitos, coke kobe, yaki onigiri, tokyo dragon roll, rocket roll, kaiso salad, nihon salad, and agedashi tofu. Paul brought a sans rival for dessert. We treated Paul to a caipirinha and to the cake cutting fee.