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Guided by Senses
Jun. 13th, 2006 11:11 amWhich is better than guided by voices, I guess. Or not. Throws up hands in confusion.
I went gym shopping last night, which is to say I went to 24 Hour Fitness, and got talked into (sort of talked into) buying a membership. Said membership has a 5 day cancellation policy, and I was so hard sold into it, tag teamed in fact which kind of cracked me up because the wheelin' and dealin' guy I was talking to brought over this very handsome associate to give me some other option and I was bemused by his pretty blue eyes (and by the 5 day cancellation policy) and despite my reservations about the gym itself - it's so big, and so open, and so many thin people, and it smells weird, smells like a gym (not a workout gym like the Krav Maga center which smelled like bouncy flooring and old sweat) but like all 24 Hour Fitness' smell - kind of metallic and weird. And their pool wasn't filled.
So I bought the membership, then went to the Hollywood YMCA, and it smelled right - like all Y's, like hardwood flooring and old building and chlorine - and I'm cancelling the 24 Hour Fitness membership to join the Y. I like that it's a part of the community, that there're kids around, and they offer financial assistance and hell, I spent most of my childhood at the Y - swimming lessons and day camp and overnight camp, and it just feels right. And more importantly, it smelled right! The nose knows, you know?
LJ wouldn't work on my laptop last night and I was bereft! Bereft I tell you! But the fabulous![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kernezelda sent me back her beta - with kind words, and some mild chiding over my disinterst in commas and my repetetive writing style, all well deserved and probably unlikely to radically change. I like my sentences to have texture and movement, to be onomatopeiaic in themselves. But I understand that can get old. Now I'm just waiting for cofax7's beta and I already feel better about the porn, so yeah! And this gives me time to do my own edit and address some of the textual issues that Kerne brought up.
Also,cofax7 posted a link to the SG-1 promo pictures, which are weirdly and heavily airbrushed (especially, inexplicably, the pics of Claudia Black which is just annoying because she's gorgeous and has so much character in her face and the pictures make her look... odd. Flat. Not real, but not in a supermodel kind of way, like in a not quite human, more like a mannequin kind of way). However, Ben Browder is wearing a sweater and jeans which I was unprepared for, and I may need some alone time with the picture of him in said sweater with Michael Shanks and Christopher Judge because, well... mmmmm, hands in pockets and sweater and jeans. I mentioned the sweater and jeans, right? There's also a really lovely one of him and CB where she doesn't look plasticized that's just very... nice somehow. Very sweet and chaste and charming, which is sort a new concept for them:) It's weird to see any pic of them together where they've both got that much clothing on that's not leather:)
And wow, I just spent a paragraph gushing about pictures of actors. They're so taking a way my liberal commie pinko hippie feminist decoder ring away. That's okay, with all those qualifiers, it gets kind of heavy to wear anyway.
I went gym shopping last night, which is to say I went to 24 Hour Fitness, and got talked into (sort of talked into) buying a membership. Said membership has a 5 day cancellation policy, and I was so hard sold into it, tag teamed in fact which kind of cracked me up because the wheelin' and dealin' guy I was talking to brought over this very handsome associate to give me some other option and I was bemused by his pretty blue eyes (and by the 5 day cancellation policy) and despite my reservations about the gym itself - it's so big, and so open, and so many thin people, and it smells weird, smells like a gym (not a workout gym like the Krav Maga center which smelled like bouncy flooring and old sweat) but like all 24 Hour Fitness' smell - kind of metallic and weird. And their pool wasn't filled.
So I bought the membership, then went to the Hollywood YMCA, and it smelled right - like all Y's, like hardwood flooring and old building and chlorine - and I'm cancelling the 24 Hour Fitness membership to join the Y. I like that it's a part of the community, that there're kids around, and they offer financial assistance and hell, I spent most of my childhood at the Y - swimming lessons and day camp and overnight camp, and it just feels right. And more importantly, it smelled right! The nose knows, you know?
LJ wouldn't work on my laptop last night and I was bereft! Bereft I tell you! But the fabulous
kernezelda sent me back her beta - with kind words, and some mild chiding over my disinterst in commas and my repetetive writing style, all well deserved and probably unlikely to radically change. I like my sentences to have texture and movement, to be onomatopeiaic in themselves. But I understand that can get old. Now I'm just waiting for cofax7's beta and I already feel better about the porn, so yeah! And this gives me time to do my own edit and address some of the textual issues that Kerne brought up.Also,
cofax7 posted a link to the SG-1 promo pictures, which are weirdly and heavily airbrushed (especially, inexplicably, the pics of Claudia Black which is just annoying because she's gorgeous and has so much character in her face and the pictures make her look... odd. Flat. Not real, but not in a supermodel kind of way, like in a not quite human, more like a mannequin kind of way). However, Ben Browder is wearing a sweater and jeans which I was unprepared for, and I may need some alone time with the picture of him in said sweater with Michael Shanks and Christopher Judge because, well... mmmmm, hands in pockets and sweater and jeans. I mentioned the sweater and jeans, right? There's also a really lovely one of him and CB where she doesn't look plasticized that's just very... nice somehow. Very sweet and chaste and charming, which is sort a new concept for them:) It's weird to see any pic of them together where they've both got that much clothing on that's not leather:)And wow, I just spent a paragraph gushing about pictures of actors. They're so taking a way my liberal commie pinko hippie feminist decoder ring away. That's okay, with all those qualifiers, it gets kind of heavy to wear anyway.
