Graduation

So yeah... I graduated about a month ago. The whole thing was kinda sudden, and somewhat anticlimactic, for the fact that I still have two courses left to take starting in July. The actual graduation ceremony wasn't really even on my radar, until the day before, when I received an e-mail from the undergraduate director of my department (linguistics). He told me I had been selected to receive a departmental award, and "enthusiastically encouraged" me to attend the departmental ceremony the next morning. So, as luck would have it, my sister was in town under otherwise unfortunate circumstances, and was able to make it on short notice, as well as my mom, and the Izer. (Dad couldn't make it.) I got a nice little plaque (right now I'm having trouble seeing that word as anything other than something you don't want -- on your teeth), and was also told a check was in the mail, but I've yet to see it. I'm currently debating on whether to look a gift horse in the mouth and complain about that.

So that's about it. I graduated. I didn't attend the big ceremony with all the brouhaha. Wasn't in the mood for that. I opted instead for a nice lunch at the Cafe with Mom and Sis.

Pilates.... 10??

After a brief fall off the cart, I've gotten back on, and I've done Pilates at least three, maybe four times since I last posted. For now, because I was away from it, I'm just going to set my count officially at 10.

So, what has happened in these weeks? I've lost approximately a quarter inch on most of my measurements since a month ago. I feel more core strength, and far less slumpy. My eating is still greatly slowed down from what it was, but I'm still having problems with concentrating on tasks I'm not particularly interested in. But back to the good news... I'm starting to see definition in my upper abs, coming out from under the layer of, er, padding. Wooha!

That's all for now. Later on, I'll post about my new computer adventures and my graduation (a post which is about a month overdue).