seems that's the theme right now. but it's alright.
i really should be packing, but I haven't done much beyond gather stuff up in a pile in my room. granted, most of what i have in my room could fit in my car plus the couch in my sister's truck, so i'm not too worried if i have to just throw stuff in my car and move it. that's one of the beauties of moving in-town and not having to be out by a certain date.
i found out the steven and virginie workshop is the same weekend that i plan to move. i think i may have found a way to do both, though i'll probably (1) have to make sure i move everything in one day and (2) have to skip saturday's workshops. this doesn't bother me too much as i've taken virginie's movement class before and the class i really want to go to is steven mitchell's musicality class -- and that's not until sunday night. at least i should be able to make it to the two dances in the evenings. i'm going to be exhausted, i think. but it's oh so worth it. it will definitely be weird to be so close to work and school and stuff.
and with the way that the new manager at the curves in escondido is behaving, i think i might be glad to be moving to a new location. i'm not positive about that, but it's looking that way. the new manager has become almost militant about stuff. i mean, they were doing fun things with "curves bucks" - play money you could earn for working out three days a week or losing weight - and they'd set up the number that you would need to get things like a t-shirt. last week she decided to quadruple the prices that you would need with the reasoning that we'd have more opportunities to earn them. like when? if anything, they've stopped doing stuff that allowed us to earn them. if this is supposed to be motivation, it's not working. if anything, i'm to the point where i could care less. in addition, the lady who opened in the mornings on weekdays used to show up early just to be nice to the people who had to get to work. it was one of the reasons that we signed up. well, the new manager went off on the morning people and said we were "taking advantage" of the lady. hello? she was doing it before we signed up. we didn't ask her to. it was her choice. but that's stopped now, and this woman was whining about how she was so tired and overworked and taken advantage of. gee. that wasn't how you felt before - you seemed to be happy about being there. supposedly they're all about customer service. i've seriously seen it go downhill in the two months i've been there. since i'm looking at transferring anyway, i'm tempted to write the owner a letter and let her know exactly how i feel. she should know.
i guess the whole thing has changed for me. i went from being encouraged to work out as much as i wanted to being told that they only wanted us to work out three times a week - no more - so that we could do other forms of exercise on our days off. sheesh! what about the people who don't have the opportunity to do other things during the rest of the week? what about those for whom this is their only opportunity to get away from kids and family and spend some time for themselves? somehow, i don't think they should be encouraging people to be spending less time at the gym. perhaps encouraging them to add additional ways of moving their body on top of their daily workout...but oh well. i'll stop ranting now. compared to what's going on in other areas of the world, this isn't all that important.
Posted by kendra at July 8, 2004 01:15 PM