anyway, i was actually quite nervous about the whole thing the day before, which is a bit unusual for me. matt offered to give me a blessing that morning and let me just say, it made everything better. after the general questions from the audience, everyone is asked to leave and then i get drilled by my committee. its like some sort of initiation process since the first time you see what actually happens is when you're doing it. they weren't too hard on me... it could have been worse, i guess. so then i get asked to step out while they deliberate over whether i will pass and graduate or fail and have to repeat a portion of my degree....
i passed!!
it was a wonderful feeling. glad i got to share it with some of my fam.
2. the next day was fairly uneventful, consisting of shopping all over town for the exact paper specified by the graduate office to print my thesis on for binding. then having it printed... that was interesting. so that evening, i hadn't done my workout for the day and it was almost dark. matt said, "get up. go put your shoes on, you'll thank me later." ummm.... no!? i don't feel like it! go away you skinny workout nazi! well, he won. then he said, "you're doing the mile tonight, no stopping." what?! i don't even want to go and now you're going to make me do something i've never ever been able to do?? eh?! i know a mile doesn't sound like much to most normal humans, but even when i was the average active little kid, i NEVER ran the whole way in PE. i was in the walker crowd even at the age of 9. so the mile has always been this sort of glowing genie lamp of fitness, attainable only to those who wear funny pants.
since it was late, we ditched our usual 2-mile walk/jog route and mapped out another one before we left that was exactly 1 mile...
aaaannnndd we're off... i was MAD. but i knew he was right, which always makes it worse!
we made about 3 blocks, i turn right, he says go straight.... he comes with me, because i ignore him.
a block or two later he says he thinks we're going the wrong way. i snap back, "if you think i'm wrong then go your own way!"
silence... for most of the way home.
at one point i was thinking, surely the turn around should be coming up soon?! gahh!! but alas, i made it the entire way home... NO STOPPING!! yaaayy!!
once we got home, we mapped out our actual route only to find that it was 1 1/2 miles! and i still made it! so i've still never done a mile, per say, but i'll take it. i've always been told that running is a head game and now i totally believe it. i'm sure glad to have a hubby who makes me better than i can be by myself. we're planning for a 5k in the fall : )
3. wednesday, i was offered a job for next school year! can't share details yet but i am still a little shocked/excited about it. will tell more when i can, but yay for unexpected income!
4. so since i missed last week's update, here's the news: i'm down another 5.6 lbs in the last two weeks! the total since the beginning of april: 11.8. only 3.2 more and i get new running shoes. good thing my rewards system is more generous than my credit card's.
graduation is next saturday, but i'm not looking forward to losing my gym membership. i'm still too cheap to join one that doesn't include its fees in my tuition. so i plan to start the torture of p90x the following week as an alternative. yeah... i'll let you know how that goes.
