And I will be done with the quarter!!  Today was good; Noah got home, we worked, had lunch, rehashed our weekends and I went to class, where my writing workshop was a success (as much as possible, anyhow).  I’m just so frigging excited to finally be done with my seemingly endless college career.  I have summer quarter to finish out my las 6 credits, but that’s on independent contract, so I’ll be working solo (just the way I like it), with Rebecca (my faculty advisor for all my contract work this past year).  And then, I will finally have slain this beast of burden.  I don’t even care so much about the actual degree, I’m not walking in the ceremony next week (though my parents and academic advisor are both pushing me to) or sending out graduation announcements or any of that crap.  But this is something that’s been weighing me down for literally YEARS now and it’s one of my final steps in establishing myself as the person I truly want to be.  The other large piece of that puzzle is losing this weight, but I’m feeling encouraged, after my bad week.  This week has been going well and I feel like I’m gathering momentum again.  Whew!

Breakfast: no

Lunch: teriyaki chicken, salad, miso soup at the Japanese restaurant (but small portions of all)

Dinner: class potluck, 1\2 cup pasta salad, 1 piece frybread, 1\2 cup roasted root vegetables, 4 apple slices

Exercise: 30 day shred, 3 miles with the dogs

1000 miles in 2009: 467 (forgot to include crazy stationary bike yesterday, but tacked it on today. . . no bike today, still have the calloused-ass feeling)

Daily awesome:  A topic of heated debate around the office (and by that I mean my converted spare bedroom and it also refers to me and Noah- ah, working from home) has been about the upcoming release of Bruno, the Sasha Baron Cohen movie.  We’ve been wondering: promoting homophobic stereotypes?  Subverting them?  Awesome or not awesome?  We just won’t know until we see the damn thing.  Weird to have two Gawker items in a row (I don’t read it every day, or even every week, I swear), but here is Richard Lawson’s analysis of this same issue: Is Bruno good for the gays?  I do have to say that I totally agree with most of this article, especially the part where he takes Adam Lambert to the mat for not publicly coming out.   I mean, it’s that kind of attitude (a clearly gay, out-n-proud-in-his-regular-life guy staying in the closet for the media) that makes people think the whole Prop 8 fiasco in California is anything other than a straight up civil rights violation.  I mean, honestly.