Happy things, happy thoughts
Jan. 26th, 2005 08:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabrinamariI wrote a huge number of really good, highly personalized letters of recommendation for a kickass student yesterday. I'm happy because I did a good job and because it's done. I think the letters will really help her to get into the graduate programs that she's targeting---and she's reaching for the country's top schools of public health. Now I'm done with all the letters of rec I was responsible for over the last few months---an intense relief! Good letters are hard to write, and a lukewarm/mediocre letter is worse than writing no letter at all. I'm glad that this responsibility is completed.
Shannon put on a fashion show for me last night, looking splendiferous in her various outfits. She's making huge progress towards her fitness and weight loss goals. The whole experience was fun, and inspired me to pull out my size 6 leather pants on the off chance that they might be close to fitting...since there will be dancing, clubs and pleasure in my near future. Amazingly, I could pull them on and come close to zipping them. I estimate that they will be wearable in 5 lbs. and comfortable in 8. Of course, I am shooting for comfortable, because it doesn't matter how hot you look if you feel constricted, uncomfortable and tense in your clothes---and I want to be relaxed, happy *and* hot. The near fit means that I might be able to wear the pants to the Philly mini-gather in mid-Feb., and certainly to FSG's Beltaine. I'm smiling. This is fun news, good fitness news and good financial news--the more great clothes I have that fit, the less I have to buy.
I'm making slow but steady progress in learning my computer system, too, and will dedicate a few hours to more room setup/house setup this weekend in order to make progress there, too, but I won't go crazy pushing myself. Life is good and remarkably free of outside criticism this days. That's new. I guess my friends are right; now the challenge is simply to cease and desist with the self-critical thoughts and behaviors and adopt a more relaxed approach to the inevitable transformative process that I'm experiencing. Well OK then, I'll do that.
Shannon put on a fashion show for me last night, looking splendiferous in her various outfits. She's making huge progress towards her fitness and weight loss goals. The whole experience was fun, and inspired me to pull out my size 6 leather pants on the off chance that they might be close to fitting...since there will be dancing, clubs and pleasure in my near future. Amazingly, I could pull them on and come close to zipping them. I estimate that they will be wearable in 5 lbs. and comfortable in 8. Of course, I am shooting for comfortable, because it doesn't matter how hot you look if you feel constricted, uncomfortable and tense in your clothes---and I want to be relaxed, happy *and* hot. The near fit means that I might be able to wear the pants to the Philly mini-gather in mid-Feb., and certainly to FSG's Beltaine. I'm smiling. This is fun news, good fitness news and good financial news--the more great clothes I have that fit, the less I have to buy.
I'm making slow but steady progress in learning my computer system, too, and will dedicate a few hours to more room setup/house setup this weekend in order to make progress there, too, but I won't go crazy pushing myself. Life is good and remarkably free of outside criticism this days. That's new. I guess my friends are right; now the challenge is simply to cease and desist with the self-critical thoughts and behaviors and adopt a more relaxed approach to the inevitable transformative process that I'm experiencing. Well OK then, I'll do that.
