Grades

Checked online today, and found that to my complete expectation, I got A's in my classes.  Woo, nonetheless!  I spent a good part of today sorting through application packages, assessing where I am, and thinking I might have to take another course or two, anyway.  Blah.  But I have the big ones out of the way, and am still focusing now on 1) work, and 2) looking for a PT volunteer position.  Thanks to a very painful but ultimately fruitful shopping expedition, I now actually have an outfit I could comfortably wear in a professional situation.  I also came to the realization that my hair has got to go at some point.  It's long, thick, and wavy, and frankly I just keep it long because it's easy, not so much because I like it or am attached to it.  But standing in a dressing room in real grown-up clothes, I had a bit of a rude awakening; it really detracts from the overall picture.  So, it's going to go, although I'm not sure when.

Today I did a run I've been wanting to do for a while - hill repeats.  I went to the nastiest hill within reasonable running distance (which truly is a relative description) and did four trips up.  Considered doing five, but I was dragging up the last part of the fourth trip, so I called it quits there.  It's not a BAD hill; it's a good 250m of increasingly steep climb in a shaded area that seldom has much traffic.  So the plan will be to do this workout every other week, and add one repeat each go.  That should get me to 10 by end of summer, just prior to the 12 hour race.  Right now I can't picture doing that thing 10 times, but by then, hopefully it won't kill me.

Oh yeah, and because I have happily recovered it - possibly my favorite picture of Grif:

Cutie pie often sits like that, with his head cocked to one side.  He's about 8 months old in this photo.