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Evangelista First appeared 21 October 1998 Spring Forward, Fall Back to Sleep Clocks go back an hour at 2 a.m. this Sunday. You'll get many more reminders before Saturday night, and if you don't switch the little and big hands, you deserve to be the first one in on Monday, making the coffee for the rest of the crew. Dr. David Claman, who heads the UCSF/Mount Zion Sleep Disorders Center suggests that we citizens of this sleep-deprived nation take advantage of the one-hour gain from the switch from Daylight Saving Time to standard time. Back in April, when we lost an hour of dream time, the Center and US sleep experts warned that too many Americans were getting less than seven hours of sleep a night and drowsy driving was taking a national toll. Here's a chance to get back on schedule. People with severe insomnia, however, are advised to sleep only an extra 15 minutes at first and make the adjustment over several days, he says. If you were wondering, campus employees such as police officers and medical personnel who work the graveyard shift, do have to put in an extra hour (gee, I can't believe it's still 2 o'clock), but are paid overtime for the extra duty. Conversely, they are paid only seven hours when the reverse happens in spring. If you were wondering, part 2 -- in most states, bars actually close at 1:59 a.m., so they are already legally closed before the 2 a.m. switch to standard time. A good practice: Many fire marshals suggest changing the batteries in the smoke alarm every time we change the clock. A recent survey by the CDC found that half of the smoke alarms installed in US homes are not working 12 months after they were put up. The main reasons for nonfunctioning smoke alarms are dead batteries or batteries that were removed and not replaced. But We Show Our Appreciation in Other Ways You See Flowers, which has been serving campus members for more than a dozen years, took only three orders for National Bosses Day. It was last Friday (Oct. 16), in case you missed it. In contrast, Secretaries Day in April is one of the florist's busiest -- second only to Valentine's Day, says owner Pat Jackson. By the way, the flowers you see at You See Flowers (you can get such a clever title when a UC committee is not involved in the naming) are making the Millberry Plaza especially colorful -- a lot of orange, yellows, purples and blues this time of the year. In the fall, when the weather is cool, the plants and flowers are especially nice and crisp, says Jackson. If you're interested, You See Flowers specializes in creative and customized flower arrangements and garden baskets. It takes phone orders (476-2898) and delivers free on campus. It's Not Even Halloween Seen last week while riding the UCSF shuttle to Laurel Heights: a fully decorated Christmas tree (fake, of course) in an apartment window at Arguello and Cabrillo. We know that the department stores are always trying to push up and lengthen the holiday season, but do we have take the bait? Maybe that was a pumpkin dressed up as a tree. LH to LH While construction of their third floor offices at Laurel Heights is under way, Catherine Pederson of Human Resources is coordinating the move of some 70 HR staff and their 300 pieces of computer equipment and furniture -- now at Laguna Honda School on Sixth Avenue -- over the Park and to their new California Street quarters. By mid-January, several divisions of HR now scattered at various locations, including Laguna Honda, will be comfortably consolidated at one location at a different LH -- Laurel Heights. The move is more than a physical one -- HR is reorganizing so it can provide its services more effectively, says assistant vice chancellor Randy Lopez. And with the relocation of many UCSF people from Laguna Honda School to Laurel Heights (programs that are part of the Center for Health and Community moved there in August), Tracy Geralds, who now works at Laurel Heights as manager of UCSF Child Care and Conference Services, is feeling a bit nostalgic. She attended her K-6 years at Laguna Honda School 34 years ago. "Those were some of the best experiences of my life," she says. "It was always nice to have a UCSF presence there." Geralds will always have a UCSF connection. She was born at Moffitt Hospital 40 years ago, and she was married in the Millberry Conference Center in 1986. A Special Prosecutor or Someone's Husband? The UCSF Police Department is working with the Secret Service to find a man wanted for threatening the President and sending threatening letters to our leader. The suspect, according to a PD bulletin issued Oct. 16, was known to be on campus on Oct. 10. Readers: If you have any items or suggestions for this column, send us an email: andye@itsa.ucsf.edu. |
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