thoughts on the gym

1. Castro was at the gym again today. He looked taller, greyer and less dead. Perhpas he is getting better?

2. I have no patience for aerobics instructors who use their classes as an exercise in humiliation. I also have no patience for instructors whose classes are boring, repetitive and involve kicks that could easily blow out one's knees. I've discovered, however, that I have no patience for having no patience, so when the instructor gets too annoying, I leave. (Tonight's lasted about 45 minutes)

3. I might be becoming a gym junkie. I don't want this to happen, because I think those people are weird, but it might just be happening anyway. That, or I'm eating too much sugar and just feel like the only way to get back to normal is to run for 30 minutes.
sidebar: maybe postal workers should run more.

4. If you're someone who doesn't poo very often, you probably shouldn't poo at the gym.

5. A while ago I was in a kickboxing class with a guy who looked like ugly cake's boyflan (ahem, I mean, a guy I used to go out with) and I spent half the class trying to impress him with how strong I had become since we broke up and the other half of the class trying to punch him in the head. He left thoroughly confused, and hasn't been back to class since. (it's ok, though, because he was kind of smelly.)

6. There's a woman I've taken class with at the gym for probably three years now and she looks like my ex-boyfriend's ex-wife. Which, by now, is no big deal. But when I met her, I was in the middle of some Severe Ugly with the ex, and I couldn't really stand to look at the woman at the gym. One day I finally told her that she resembled my boyfriend's ex and she smiled and gave a knowing sigh. (We've been friendly ever since.)

7. Eating less is always key to losing weight, but sometimes it's just impossible. (Like when people walk into your office and say "hey, Kate, I made these cookies just for you. Do you want one?" How exactly are you supposed to say no??) I think that's why god invented the guy who invented the treadmill. That, or he just thinks it's funny to have grown people run around like hamsters...

8. I have now officially overthought the gym.