{"id":1644,"date":"2008-04-22T22:40:19","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T05:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2008-04-22T22:40:20","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T05:40:20","slug":"being-ridiculed-at-the-gym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1644","title":{"rendered":"Being ridiculed at the gym."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been told by the young guys that if I can stay out until 4AM like they do, then I should have to do the same exercises with the same weight as the young guys. I think it would kill me. However, I have decided that my non-manly music enjoyment is growing today but I can&#8217;t really remember what it was that made me decide that. Duran Duran maybe? More Erasure? Just can&#8217;t remember.<\/p>\n<p>I have decided that I think the woman in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FQaaTU-hLNc\">Yoplait commercial<\/a> who is having all her clothes &#8220;taken in&#8221; by the seamstress is kind of hot. She has a very expressive face. Really, I don&#8217;t know where I&#8217;m going with this, but last Friday night my heterosexual life partner Il and I were discussing my old girlfriends (and when was I actually dating non-imaginary women? 15 years ago?) and a couple of them were kind of frightening to Il. Honestly, they were kind of frightening to me, too. The one he remembers being non-scary and attractive, however, kind of looked like the woman in the Yoplait ad. Not a lot like her, but a little.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and even with my ridiculous diet of this weekend, I&#8217;ve lost about five pounds recently. I seem to vary 5 pounds up and down so it&#8217;s not like it really means anything. I even tried to get a taco salad today at Juan Colorados (the Mexican restaurant where I&#8217;ve never seen any patrons who looked Mexican) and even tried to avoid the fried shell, sour cream, and guacamole. What I got had a little bit of lettuce and a bit more chicken and a whole lot of melted cheese. Not much of a salad. That&#8217;s what I get for eating with gringos. The place I wanted to go, Don Pedros, has things that aren&#8217;t a whole lot more healthy, but I think I like the two chicken tacos, rice, and refried beans a lot more. The best thing I can say about my melted cheese salad is that it wasn&#8217;t very large.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I should be happy that we did a &#8220;Chipper&#8221; workout and not a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3dwebZYbktM\">suicide drill<\/a>. (Hey Nathan, that&#8217;s the truly barf-inducing exercise I was thinking of the other day.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been told by the young guys that if I can stay out until 4AM like they do, then I should have to do the same exercises with the same weight as the young guys. I think it would kill me. However, I have decided that my non-manly music enjoyment is growing today but I can&#8217;t really remember what it was that made me decide that. Duran Duran maybe? More Erasure? Just can&#8217;t remember. I have decided that I think the woman in the Yoplait commercial who is having all her clothes &#8220;taken in&#8221; by the seamstress is kind of hot. She has a very expressive face. Really, I don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1644\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Being ridiculed at the gym.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}