Tall Ham was a sad, cautionary tale. From what I gathered, she had once been a fun, motivated, outdoorsy, human-sized person. However, she had fallen prey to the gravitational pull of Short Ham. Tall Ham was in grad school, but was slowly getting fatter and lazier, struggling to deposit her thesis on time to graduate. I heard Tall Ham complaining to Short Ham a couple of times about how they should eat out less and be more active because her clothes were getting too small for her and she had no energy. She seemed genuinely unhappy with the way her weight was going, but Short Ham seemed to have some evil agenda of trying to drag those in her sphere of influence down to her level of sloth, gluttony and obesity and keeping them there. Unfortunately, Tall Ham had some very misplaced loyalty toward Short Ham and never stood up to her.