The weather today is just wonderful and St. Charles Avenue has been packed with cars all day. Many of the schools are open now and things are looking pretty lively. It's really kind of exciting.
I could have, should have ridden this morning, but I was up 'till 1 a.m. or so working on a scheme to divide up $95M in federal disaster relief funds among the area universities in preparation for a meeting tomorrow, and I really wanted that extra hour of sleep. I was also trying to figure out how my electricity and gas bill suddenly jumped to $350. I figured out that they must have gotten the starting meter reading wrong by 100 cubic feet when they installed it after the hurricane, and was shocked when Entergy not only responded to the email I sent this morning, but actually agreed with me! I'll probably be downtown much of tomorrow and then on Friday we'll be moving everything back into our regular office where I will have my very own telephone! Whoohooo! I will certainly miss the lovely view of St. Charles Ave. and the entrance to Audubon Park and the easy commute to work.
I finally got the OK to put up the new Office of Research website that I re-designed for them, and maybe now I can find some time to work on the bike club and LAMBRA website and put the latest newsletter up on the LPMA website.
Had lunch with a few people including a Harvard MBA with three years of med school who is down here to help out with some of the Biotechnology committee's recommendations and strategic planning. Should be interesting. Rebecca took him for a little tour down to the 9th ward and said he was pretty shocked. He said that he now felt kind of stupid for some of the things he wrote in his initial planning document.
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