Thursday, April 23, 2009
Cardio warmup: 15 minutes. Usual oatmeal breakfast. To work. Posted updated parking instructions for the graduation ceremony for Cindy, announced. No taxo conference call today but some of us weren't notified. Lunch at Za Zang Korean Noodle (415-447-0655, 2340 Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, California, USA). I wanted to cry after this meal, and not tears of joy—tears of sorrow and regret. I had more than half an hour before a doctor appointment. I checked out the menu. No problem, I'll have chicken noodle soup. That should be really fast. The restaurant is full, but more than half of the diners already have their food. No problem. I'm seated quickly, and the menu is already on the table, but then the server forgets about me. I look over and can see that she's not that busy. She's just waiting near the kitchen window doing nothing. After 6 or 7 minutes of patient waiting, I walk over and tell her my order. Over 15 minutes pass while I read from a book, and I look over in her direction inquiringly. She sees me, sticks her head in the kitchen window (probably telling the kitchen about my order for the first time), then brings a can of Coca-Cola and a straw to me. I didn't order a Coke, I say. She says it's because the order is taking a long time. I politely but firmly refuse the Coke. (Doesn't she know that soda is evil?) She takes it away. 22 minutes after I had placed my order, it arrives. I have 7 minutes to eat, and I'm so hungry that I of course burn my tongue on the hot soup. My server never returns to check or refill my tea. The chicken is low quality—bits of gristle here and there. Ick. The noodles are a little overcooked. The edges of the cabbage where it was sliced look dark, kind of like they are moldy, but it could just be they were sliced hours or days instead of minutes ago. I pay, leaving a normal tip that I'd rather not leave, but I leave it anyway—the price of being able to leave this place early is worth it. I will never eat at this Zazang Korean Noodle again. Doctor appointment. Helped student SP with an email display name request. Collected data on names of folders to be uploaded to the DAL and their filesizes—so far about 2.2 GB. Listserv management: trimmed Kappa Psi. Calendar management. Found a laptop power adapter cable—is it a student's? Maybe... Began looking into implementing a request from Carol for news for the pharm sci pathway. Reviewed new DLS contract. Got remote desktop working again. Logo request for Susie and Kristen B. Installed SimplePie, began experimenting with some code that uses it and realized that the calendar RSS feed provided by Public Affairs has a lot of problematic links and so I reported the problem to them. Spent over half an hour with Mark B getting Entourage 2008 to connect to UCSF Exchange. We got it to receive mail by deleting the account and readding it but specifying firstname.lastname@ucsf.edu rather than canonicalname@pharmacy.ucsf.edu. Organized email. After we finished talking and hung up, I realized that I could not send messages and reported the problem to him. BTS followup with Susie. Dinner at home with Patrick: wagon wheels pasta in marinara sauce, sourdough city bread from Arizmendi, Smart Balance Light. Fixed the color printer and scanner—I had forgotten where to set its IP address. (Answer: Scanners and Cameras control panel.) Stretches. Weight training: superslow dumbbell fly, superslow curl, superslow concentration curl, superslow shoulder press, crunch. Stretches. Uploaded photos to Flickr.