the gym

It's weird how solitary the gym is... You go, hop on your treadmill/elliptical/bike/erg/etc, plug in your ipod, open a magazine (or at nice gold's or wsc watch tv on your treadmill) and solitary confine yourself to the machine.
The classes are so close to almost the same way, usually you show up by yourself, yoga, and go. So many people are say-nothing-to-no-one types.
And then there's cardio kickboxing, which just amuses me. Yes, I enjoy it! Fun to do something completely different, but oh it's so funny.

Generally a mix of girls (women) ranging from the college kid home for the summer to post college to awkward mom age to old & uncoordinated. And the occasional awkward middle aged man who I usually see as a spectacle (but even more so in yoga). Yesterday was a mix of post college/awkward mom. I'll get the awkward mom thing out of the way because they sometimes seem completely discombobulated, incapable of getting any of the sequences right, unable to kick an inch off the floor, have to get water every 2 minutes... Hope I am never an awkward mom but good for you for going to the gym with all the skinny pretty gym-addict girls.

Then there's the we all look alike crowd. And it's so amusing these girls who punch and kick like they are fighting some imaginary enemy who is always on the right right right right right left left left left left right left right left.... No room for elbow-kick him in the nuts-right-left-left-left-right-left randomness like a real fight. No, this is a pink robot we're atttacking. Oh all these Yoshimi girls left block right kicking.

And bless you for knowing right from left. I see cardio kickboxing as a mental exercise: remembering my right from left, following crazy little kicking sequences, shuffling, bobbing, it's really hard on my head since work is such a brain drain. Some girls (who go to ckb way too muuuuuch) get so tough and into it like "I am ready for you pink robot do your best right left right left right left double speed"...
I am not so much like that, considering I can't be ready for the pink robot with it's alternating right lefts because I might just start out left right left left right left right don't stop paying attention because you'll go right left ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Haha.

na-NO

Working in a totally windows dominated office has its pitfalls. For instance, here I am trying to find out the newest information on ipod video (yes, there is ipod with mpeg-4 video--is that like quicktime?, officially & a new imac computer & itunes 6) and there are a bunch of tech people working nearby, but I haven't heard a peep from anybody but myself about ipod w/video.

Did I mention macs can't catch viruses?

Just say no to nano? I think I might still want one, even with this video snazzy ipod.

ipod video?

Apple has a press conference/press release tomorrow and they are announcing something more...

Word on the (insider) street is ipod w/video.

Didn't realize that nano replaced mini, guess I'm retro now.

ipod

Is it just me, or does the ipod ROKR make anyone else think of Al Roker? (Or do I watch the food network too often?)

In other news, Ashton & Demi Moore got married. Did they? Or did the entire nation just get punk'd?

Nano...

OK, I'd seen the commercials and I was not impressed. Then we went into the apple store at the Pentagon City mall. (ASIDE: Where my cell does not work b/c Verizon is so stupid as to not work indoors but work on the metro and I am still apartment-less and VERY VERY depressed about it today.) Apple Store: Instead of wearing those hideous bright green easy to spot t-shirts, the staff now wear black stealth Nano t-shirts. Also unimpressive. But ohmygod, have you actually touched this thing? It is smaller than a credit card (and 3 or 4 times as thick) and so so sexy. It is what the 5th pocket was made for a' la best week ever. It is amazing. It is everything you always wanted (and never would have imaginied you did). I almost want to toss my cute pink ipod mini and get a nano. (However, I finally bought a hard case for the mini so I can put it in my bag and go to the gym w/o worrying about scratching it or banging it up.) Nano, compared to regular old ipod is ridiculous!!!!!! I hate to say it, but I love it, and I desparately want one. But I'm afraid it would be easily lost.

Post 1 of a few today, I think.