mmm so excited

Apr 05, 2006 22:22

my hold finally came up for six feet under season 4 :) i am gonna pick it up on friday! hopefully this will fill the void left by sex & the city. then i will have to rent season 5 since no libraries have it yet.

in case you're bored and need a guide of things to do, check out this book:
You Can Do It: The Merit Badge Handbook For Grown-up Girls by Lauren Catuzzi Grandcolas
i bet boys could do it too :)

and velocityboy highly recommends Nick Adams' book, Making Friends With Black People which i also just requested from the library.

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so tonight at the gym, i was in spinning class & working my ass off. i swear the teacher was on speed or something... she was so fucking psycho tonight, cycling at the speed of light and kept yelling (luckily the mic wasn't working... last week i had to ask her to turn down her mic as it was hurting my ears). anyway, she kept looking off to the side at me, especially after yelling to turn up our resistance. about 2/3 into the class, she looks at me (mind you the room is dark & lit with black lights) and says loudly (in front of the whole class) "are you turning your knob to the right? no cheating!!!!" i was like fuck you bitch! i'm over here DRIPPING with sweat and pretty much breathless with my heart rate consistently at 170-180 which puts me consistently at 90% of my maximum heart rate for my age (220 minus your age). so for the rest of class i was mentally preparing my lecture to her about how shaming people & singling them out in front of a class is not a good motivational technique and makes me not want to come to her class. and i also planned to tell her that in other classes when the teacher has us take our pulse, mine is always at the high end of the range of what the teacher says it should be. so she needs to mind her own damned business! incidentally this is the same trainer who tried to shame me into buying $1500 worth of personal training sessions with saying "well it depends how dedicated you are" when i was not buying her sales pitch. i was going to talk to her after class but i didn't feel like waiting in line to do so. i feel obligated to say something to her though. she's the fucking shame nazi of bally. my spinning teacher on monday & tuesday is SO GREAT in comparison. she is encouraging and compliments how hard we're working throughout the class. that is motivation... not "no cheeeeeeeating?" in a chastizing voice. and besides, even if i wasn't turning up my resistance, that is MY CHOICE. i'm an adult and i can decide how hard i want to work out on any given day.
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