I've Heard Good Things

Before Work

I went to the gym before work Thursday. Alarm at 6am, snoozed until 6:30, stumbled around the room. Pants, socks, shirt, t shirt, shoes, in search of a plastic bag for it all. Laptop, headphones, hard drive, ID card, keys, phones, wallet, extra cash for ski tickets, notebook, reading book.  It’s more than I’ll remember. I need to clear my room. Or clean it. Or at least stop moving all my clothes from the bed to the floor everyday. I could buy a dresser. I should buy a dresser.

I got to the gym. I didn’t eat beforehand. It’s an hour long trainer session. It’s with a dude named Rusty. Another trainer nearby called his trainee “a little bitch” when he started to have trouble with a weight. Rusty doesn’t do that shit. I should have eaten before. I got a little dizzy. 

I had 15 minutes after the session to catch the shuttle down to work. I planned on showering, but there were some guys in the locker rom and at 23 I still don’t feel comfortable getting naked in front other guys. Back in high school we used to come to the locker room in the morning to stash our soccer gear before class. There would be 40 year old men showering naked. Shampooing. Soaping. Sometimes singing. Luffas. The whole deal. They had just finished a morning swim. I never knew how it was okay for a bunch of old guys to get naked in front of 13 year olds. What was going on there? 

I showered at work. I forgot boxers. I didn’t have Shampoo, soap or a luffa. I used a bottle of pump hand soap that I found on the bathroom sink. It seemed to do the trick, although my hair was left with that ‘wet dog’ smell all day. After a while I got used to it, but I’m sure everyone else could smell it. 

I forgot a belt too. This was a problem for about 60% of the day until I realized if I rolled my corduroys in at the waist they became tighter. That was the winning ticket right there. 

I had a headache for most of the day. Took some aspire, which worked for about 30 minutes, then it came raging back. I still have it. Sometimes when a headache lasts this long I begin to wonder if it will ever go away. I forgot what it feels like to not have a headache. 

I won’t go to the gym before work anymore.