Lull

No, I didn't off myself after finding my first gray hair, but I have been elsewhere: wrapping up work for my internship and getting ready for a week-long vacation (starting this Saturday) I've been counting down the minutes to since June. :)

Posting on vacation will probably be limited to stories about shredding and editing photos from my mom's wedding—her photographer was pretty meh, so I'll be doing my best to make her pictures pretty and assembling an album we'll get printed online. I figure the album-making practice can't hurt! Of course, should anything more exciting happen while I'm away, you'll be the first to know. Or the fifth, after my travelmates. Etc.

Weight Watchers in the office

As I mentioned, I've finally reached my goal weight after month(s) of busting my butt (somewhat literally). And as I've also previously mentioned, I'll be spending this fall (and summer, too, actually) interning for an agency off-campus.

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These are great experiences for my resume, but are doing a number of my time management. Though classes kept me busy as all get-out last semester (you'd never know it from reading this blog, though, would you!), I rarely had to be out the door before 8:00 AM, which gave me enough time to work out in the morning during the week, to cook healthy meals during the day, and to take care of myself in ways I'd not otherwise done since college (so it figures that only after returning to graduate school and dedicating myself to my health did I get back to my college weight! ;). Basically, in the last semester, I undid all the weight-related damage I'd done to myself in three years in the corporate workforce.

But for the next seven months, I'll be working full-time on a regular schedule an hour away from home. I'll have a lot more personal time (time where I don't need to think about the homework I should be doing), but a lot less flexible time (time to spend an hour and a half in the living room weight lifting four days a week). If I fall into my old bad habits—habits like eating to alleviate boredom or relieve stress, or like going out to eat (and buying a fattening lunch) just because everyone else is—I won't have enough time between when the job ends in December and my wedding in March to lose the weight again!

Sigh. I'm on week 20 of Buff Brides, and I intend to do two weeks of nothing but cardio after I finish the program (four weeks from now) and before starting over again with week 1. I guess I'll work out after I get home if I have to, but we shall see...

My next step is world domination

I got the internship! Oh happy day!

Not wedding related

Last night I went with BM5 to a champagne and dessert bar for a "wedding happy hour." After being assaulted by various wedding vendors for an hour, we were disappointed to find out that no champagne was actually being served (although the punch was pretty good... even if it did leave me with a wicked hangover today despite the relatively low alcohol content) and headed over to a wine bar down the street before heading back home. I'll have to try that place again someday, without the coordinators and photographers (etc.). I might actually suggest it for my bachelorette party.

Meanwhile, I have good, non-wedding-related news today. I got my summer internship really late in the process (some people knew what they were doing this summer last August; I didn't finish my search until last week), and I had kind of felt like a loser because it was so hard to come by (even though it's fairly prestigious internship and is not usually offered earlier in the year... I just never knew back in August though March that I actually had a shot at it) so I just kind of assumed that nothing else good on the career front could happen to me this year.

But no! I was just contacted by another prestigious agency (moreso than my summer internship) for a fall internship that I applied to months ago. Apparently prestigious internships move slowly ;).

I'm really excited, and keeping my fingers crossed! I interview next week.