Just got back from the gym; really happy with how all that's going. I feel like not only am I getting in better shape and feeling better, but that I'm learning how to push myself harder, which I hope I'll be able to apply to all aspects of my life… I know it might seem like I work pretty hard, but in all honesty I'm quite sure I could put in a lot more work than I do — and more importantly, I need to.
I couldn't find my car keys, so I drove Rachel's Porsche… Mine has a short shifter, a solid clutch, puts about 40 more horsepower to the road, and has a much more race-tuned suspension, so the cars are quite different to drive — but hers has one killer stereo, and I think feels a little more Lexus (ie. quiet and smooth) at 200+.
Last weekend I'd dropped off a sealed and wrapped copy of the ModCon book for my trainer at the gym. The weird thing is that by the time it got to him it had been unwrapped and read… Both the receptionist and the newly hired general manager (the only people who handled it) swear up and down that it wasn't them. You'd think one of them would just say “yeah, it was me, I'm really sorry, I didn't even think that it would be a big deal…” and then it would be over; no big deal.
But the fact that one of them is lying about it makes it clear that they knew it was wrong. Not so much wrong to me, but an invasion of my trainer's privacy. The (homophobic) general manager made a bunch of noise to him along the lines of “well, given the content you can't really blame someone… that kind of stuff really shouldn't be in the club” and kind of tried to make my trainer feel bad about it — which is stupid of course — if he had a problem with it he should have come to me. And more importantly, the content was irrelevant given that it was sealed!
Meh.
Anyway, I don't want this to seem like I'm down on the club at all — all the people I've met at the gym with the exception of an old German couple who slag people, thinking no one can understand them, have been absolutely wonderful to me. I've said this to a couple people, but an interesting observation has been that it seems the worse shape you're in, the nicer people at the gym are to you (presumably because they're happy to see you making positive changes in your life).
That reminds me — Kilean (for the girls) has reinstated his .
Anyway, I've got to do some more work on the July 30th image update, and do some work on the new column (basically explaining the real reasons piercing laws exist — social control — and explaining to people why it's important to resist them). I've also started formulating the next column, How body modification can help resist the coming human-robot apocalpyse.
PS. guess who!
Post a Comment