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[stakebait]

Mmmmmmm. Got a massage at lunch! Yay, company health fair. They should quit paying for the Employee Assistance Program and spring for free backrubs instead. It would do more for morale and stress reduction, not to mention employee retention.

And thanks to the health fair, I am considering joining a gym. Who am I, and what have I done with the real Mer? But they have swimming and yoga and t'ai chi, and a CLUEFUL PERSONAL TRAINER WHO DOESN'T ASSUME I WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT, and also does not shrink from mentioning that I'm heavy when it's relevant. (He also introduced himself as a Level 4 Trainer, thus accidentally sending my mind down an entire path of Real World D&D and causing me to miss the next sentence.)

You have to pay extra for Clueful Trainer, alas, but if I can spring for the actual monthly fee (iffy at best) I think it'd be worth springing for a session or three to design a workout I can do without him. Anyway I'll use my free week and see if the madness passes.

They also have a yacht. Why does a health club have a yacht? It's free to members, but you can only bring a friend four times without paying, and my mind boggles at attempting to socialize with people based on the fact that we work out at the same chain of health clubs. I'm not saying you can't meet cool people at the gym, because you can meet cool people anywhere, but you can meet cool people at the bookstore too and they don't have a yacht.

The beach club, on the other hand, I am not arguing with at all.

I could, of course, look around for a health club sans yacht which might be cheaper, but with the corporate discount I'm not sure if I would find one.

Comments

[tisana.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with having a boat. Boats are good. The arrogance that comes along with it being a yacht I could do without, but hey...

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

*nodsnodsnods* There's a touch o' Class Issues there, yeah. But other than "aren't we cool?" I suspect they just mean "it's big and somebody else drives it."

[redbird]

A triad I know have a sailboat, which they keep at a place called a "yacht club" that, from the descriptions of the two who post to alt.poly, doesn't sound at all snobbish or limited to the rich. But the phrase "yacht club" has led to confusion and false assumptions, which "sailing club" would not.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

*nods* Makes sense.

[ckd]

But are they Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire, and do they also own a mansion?

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

If they're not, they totally should be.

[halimede.livejournal.com]

Yay cluefulness! Also yay t'ai chi, though my tired brain went 'spiced tea? odd, but yum!' at first. But no, that's the other roughly-eastern-from-here thing with both a 'ch' and an 'ai' in it.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Heh. yeah, as far as I know there is no chai. But I could easily be wrong.

[iswari.livejournal.com]

Wow, I seem to recall you mentioning awhile back that you hated gyms! And what on earth gym has a yacht!? Yay for cool PTs, though. The ones I've encountered at my gym are presumptuous asses. ;-P

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

*nodsnods* Mostly I hated gyms because they were full of people who assumed I was there to lose weight, or that I should be. Unfun. This place? So far? Not so much.

[reannon.livejournal.com]

*rotates sore shoulder*
*stretches aching lower back muscles*

*is jealous*

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Awh, I'm sorry. Heating pad, maybe, later?

[reannon.livejournal.com]

Would be if I owned one. :( This is when a hunky sex slave with skilled hands would come in really handy. That, and fixing the exploded light bulb in the kitchen.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

I so get that. I asked my ex to change all my lightbulbs before I broke up with him. :) I've toyed with the idea of placing a personal ad for a slave -- they doesn't have to be hunky if I'm not having sex with them, and they could clean my house and do my laundry and such -- but it always ends up feeling not fair to the poor sub. Not so much the lack of sex, which I could say up front, but the fact that I'm not exactly Mistress Domly Dom, and am really far more interested in the end result than in making him or her do it.

[doeeyedbunny.livejournal.com]

Hey, you know how I feel about trainers and working out...
If you join, I call dibs on a yacht trip!

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Hee! Sure. I'm still trying to find out where this beach club is. Anyway, can I pick your brain about gym fees and such sometime? I have no idea what's normal.