She's a Maniac
(or Where Does Masochism Stop?)

Today I went to the gym; I've been doing it for a while now, but only about twice a week. With this long vacation that I have, I've decided to go 4 to 5 times a week, for two courses at a time. I looked at the schedule they had for tonight: Tae-Box and bodybuilding (no heavy machinery involved). Seemed fair enough, the first one is a bit tougher, but acceptable, while the latter is very intense, but relaxing as well. Or are they :D? I hadn't taken into account the fact that my usual instructor would be replaced by a contortionist from a different galaxy. It's true, I'd never gone to the gym on Monday. That woman killed me!!! After 40 minutes of tae-boxing I felt worse than after the two-hour Saturday workout. "Mirela, you might be going home earlier than you thought... one hour should be enough". I mean, she'd come and stand next to each of us and make us work! She'd yell at us, while offering us the cutest possible smile. Among the songs she used was Maniac. Did she think we hadn't got it? Still... the minute I had almost made up my mind to leave one hour earlier, Rhythm Is a Dancer started, followed by Ice Ice Baby. I rose from the dead... these songs just make me wanna dance! So I decided to stay for the next course as well. That one I knew was easy... wrong! Not with this crazy woman! I hate her... and I can hardly wait for January to come to let my masochistic side kick in again... I'm going back for seconds, that's for sure :D ! Too bad I have to wait for so long, since all holidays fall on a Monday. I'll just have to settle for the other instructors for a while. It's true I might not be able to move tomorrow, but it feels great... except for the stiffness in my legs, my dizziness and the pain in my other parts...

While killing myself I had to think of frustrating things that would bother me so much that I'd keep going. And I came up with another reason for hating men (maybe I should tell Eloa, as if she didn't know!): they don't have to go through such hell when visiting the gym! It's like a vacation for them... lifting a few pounds (they'd better be able to do that if they call themselves "men"!), looking at chicks and doing 50 push-ups.. hey, that's their pride, they do it to show off, anyway :D! Now this is a good reason to hate men :P.

Oh, one more thing: what in the world is a 14-year old (and I'm being generous, she might've been 12), representing 1/12 of my body size, doing at the gym and annoying the others (by "others" I mean "me", of course :P )? Shouldn't she be studying, or playing hide-and-seek or something? But she only stayed for one course, while I faced the maniac's fury twice! Who's laughing now, eh :))) ? (rhetorical question!)