So far all the friends we’ve been able to contact have been fine. Most of my family and relatives in Japan are much further south than the earthquake and everyone on the coast was shielded from the tsunami by islands and coastline. My uncle in Osaka didn’t even know that there was an earthquake and my aunt on the coast of the inland sea was fine as well.I still haven’t been able to contact my old co-worker Suzuki-san in Tokyo, but other friends sound OK and are on Twitter and Facebook.

I should probably quit worrying about changes at the gym I go to. They’re threatening to add spin classes to a small gym that mainly has other classes. Really. Spin classes. I’m afraid that the gym is becoming a “girlie gym” and another woman at the gym agreed. I was hoping she’d just tell me I was wrong, but she thought there seems to be a growing divide between the “strong women” and the “fast women” and she also was afraid that there were more of the “fast women” who didn’t like to lift heavy weights. Not that I’m on either list of the women. If I have to join 24 HR or L.A. Fitness to do deadlifts and barbell squats, shouldn’t other people have to join 24/L.A. to get their spin classes?

I figure that I really shouldn’t worry until it actually affects me; the workouts are still tough and they haven’t eliminated any of the class times I attend.

The big problem is that if I really cared about my “career” (and I use that term loosely) I would find a gym much closer to work because that would make it easier to spend more time in the office. But, really, what am I going to do with a “career”? What would I spend more money on? I think I need an exponential gain in pay to actually increase my attractiveness to women. And what would I do with more responsibility? I guess it would be nice to annoy more people at once with less effort, but there’s no guarantee of less work. I really don’t want any more reasons to push me towards making changes to my schedule and working more.