h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I think I might try and re-live some of the angst and agonies of adolescent love. I saw Sophie again today at the gym... I made the crucial mistake of calling her "the beautiful" when I greeted her, though I think I recovered quickly enough.. I did succeed in making her smile (she laughed when I reminded her, indirectly, that she'd challenged me not to forget her name!), inquiring after her health and what she'd done with the rest of the weekend, and making her feel for my health when I related the story of how I'd eventually reached home on Sunday morning...! About the only part of this which matters to me, though, is the bit about making her smile...

Today was otherwise a good day, too. It was bloody cold for the first half, but even when the sun began to shine properly, at lunch time, it remained cold. I tried to work off some of the cold in my bones by riding around Mt. Ainslie in the afternoon sunshine (the HDMBH rides again - yeeeehaaah!) with the excuse that I was getting the most from my bike before putting it in for a service on Friday, but it didn't help much. I finally only began to get rid of the feeling of the cold by going to the gym, drinking cups of sweetened tea from their machine and conversing with the gang over there - all of whom know me and my periodic employment problems quite well...

Certain members of the gym staff were less than impressed that numerous people had decided to attend the gym's launch of the new BodyCombat track, BodyCombat 4. There was some (sarcastic) suspicion that it was only happening because the Combat instructors (one in particular - you know which one I mean...) are younger, blonder, more attractive women than those who were doing circuits this afternoon. In normal circumstances this would probably be considered the case, but the combination of all of the Combat instructors - all of whom are female, all of whom are very fit and all of whom can hit you rather hard if they put their minds to it - in one place is really terrifying. In any case the attendance at the Combat launch turned out to be almost all female, and I don't think that there are that many lesbian gym-goers, even in Dickson....

I enjoyed the launch - another instructor I know told me afterwards that I looked like I was born for BodyCombat. I wonder how difficult it is to look this way in a room full of women who aren't really physically conversant with the idea of hitting anything...!

I truly hope that Sophie isn't a lesbian, ‘cause that could be incredibly frustrating, as well as embarrassing...