i am an unrequited astronomer, pretend patient, gentle adventurer, pedal enthusiast, recovering calligrapher, occasional thespian and unfinished poet living in portland, oregon. contacting me via email is usually a good idea.
most of the day was spent exchanging the glorious full-spectrum lights in kathy's office with the nasty fluorescents in our office, so that facilities services doesn't get a chance to take them away from her until we've made a case to environmental health & safety. i feel responsible since i was the one who ultimately showed him where "those lights" were. the process was hugely comedic: we'd close our door, remove the lights from our fixtures, run across the hall, close kathy's door, replace kathy's lights with ours, then run across the hall again, close our door, and replace our empty fixtures with kathy's lights. it's really amazing what a difference they make; i wish we could keep them!
we attended mandatory sexual harassment training today; abel & i played hangman most of the time.
and in other news, i tried valiantly (and mostly succeeded) in catching up with my "spring02 todo" mail folder. the webct-admin list is trickling back to life as we weakly protest the deplorable situation with the technical docs not being available until after you pay, which makes it very difficult to plan upgrades.