And Now 21!

When you weigh a lot, your weight can change quickly, at least by the standards of you folks occupying the skinnier world. So I am pleased to report that I have finally broken through the 20 pound threshold that has been so elusive.

Intense exercise is a wonderful thing and of course key to this whole endeavor. Yesterday was one of those days, pushing up the roundball in a basketball run that I joined in 1992. Organized at first as graduate students from the University of Maryland Government and Politics Department, it has been weekly for 16 years now. Only a few faces left from those days and we have moved inside to kinder wooden floors as we got older - gone are the days of mid-day sun outside on the asphalt.

But the upshot is a push and a magic 21 popping up on the scale this morning (after some subtraction of course). Facing happy hour with former students of mine tonight so it may be short-lived but the hope is we are off the plateau!

Note of explanation on the Duke University logo - as a alumnus, one thinks Duke when one talks basketball. Just the order of things.