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Medifast Status: Day 198, Down ~70lbs

Today is our final day as La Cima members.  It has been a year and a half and La Cima has been a major component of our life here in Texas.  We have been members here nearly since arriving in Texas.  We joined long before buying our first house here.  We’ve eaten more meals at La Cima than anywhere else in Texas.

We went up for pasta night tonight.  It is fitting that our last meal with be pasta night with friend because that is how it all started.  Brian Watson, who is also no longer a member at the club, had taken Souder, Tara and I to La Cima for pasta night back around April of 2010 or somewhere around there.  We thought that it was great.  I brought Dominica back and she decided right away that she wanted to join.  We have used the club more and more since then.  Liesl loves it and we really appreciated the opportunity for her to grow up in a place like this.

Tonight it was Jen and Tamara joining Dominica, Liesl, Luciana and I for pasta night dinner.  Dominica and I could obviously not do pasta tonight but it worked out as we had one of our Plus meals left to use anyway.

Dinner was good.  It is not like we will not be returning to La Cima.  We just are no longer local members at La Cima.  With our membership at Brookhaven we have associate membership at La Cima so we are still able to come back here anytime that we want and, in fact, we get a buy one, get one meal each month that we need to use either at La Cima, The Tower Club or Park City Club.  Even if we do a rotation we will be using that meal quarterly at La Cima.  Likely we will be there a lot more often than that just because we are comfortable there and they are used to our dietary requirements.  Park City is way more fancy than we would want to do with kids (jacket required) and the Tower Club, while really easy to do as adults via train, is a bit more of an effort when you have the kids.  I’m sure that we will use the Tower a bit, especially as we get used to using the train to get there and as the girls get older, but Park City will be a special occasion kind of place.

After dinner Dominica and the girls drove back home.  We had driven separately so I walked Jen to her car in the garage and we talked for a while.  Then on my way over to my car I ran into a bunch of the La Cima crew hanging out in the garage and I hung out with them for a while too.

Home and off to bed.

Medifast Status: Day 197, Down ~70lbs

This one was not so long ago and yet this whole month has been an incredible blur.  Maybe Dominica will remember…

Medifast Status: Day 196, Down ~70lbs

Back to the work week.  Very little of interest today.  My class is over and I have no idea how I did.  It will likely be weeks before I have any feedback on the class which contributes to how useless the homework and whatnot is because the feedback doesn’t come until weeks after you would have needed it to have adjusted what you were doing.

No news.  Calling it a post.

Medifast Status: Day 195, Down ~70lbs

Today is the final day of my class so I spent it doing the last minute wrap up stuff for my term paper.  I am going to be so happy when this is finally completely done and I don’t have to think about it anymore.  This has been unnecessary stress that I just don’t need and a lot of time of not getting to spend time with my family for no good reason.

Medifast Status: Day 194, Down ~70lbs

Sadly my weekend is spent doing homework rather than relaxing.  This is the final weekend of my class at RIT and the final term paper is due tomorrow.  This is the term paper that has been such a nightmare for the class – even though the paper itself was trivial to produce.  This is what I hate about college, you put in all the effort of making something good and useful and instead create something awful and pointless.  It trains you to be bad at things and to expend way too much effort in doing so.  At least eighty percent of the effort and stress in this class is caused by class issues and cheating students.  There was no material to learn and the content of the class was nonexistent.  There was no reason whatsoever for the class to be challenging in any way.  And yet it was overly stressful.  I am so not happy.

So the bulk of this weekend was spent working on the term paper.  I had to do quite a bit of work on my section, help out the other team member and then completely, totally do every single word of the project for the other team member.  I have now, at the last assignment of the semester, written every group project word that she has turned in for the semester.  Every single thing.  This is why I hate group projects in university.  It is a game of academic chicken – the person with the most to lose will lose every time.

I spent a bit of time on the phone with my professor complaining that she set up the class to hide cheating and to be as distant from reflecting real world work as possible.  I am living with how RIT has allowed this class to exist and this is not the first class like this that I have had there.  RIT is so completely amateur compared even to community college.  It’s the most pathetic educational experience I have ever encountered.  It quite literally is like having to go through high school again but with worse teachers, worse students and far more cheating.