That is all.

I joined a gym a few months back, and generally, I like the gym and it's been a good experience, until this week.  The gym had this dance class on Wednesdays that was taught by this amazing instructor.  Dance is not something I do.  It's not that I don't absolutely appreciate it, it's just that I do not have that natural sense of dance and it's difficult for me to truly let go in structured dance.  It's one thing when I'm out.  But in a studio with bright lights and choreographed moves?  Let's put it this way, you know how you're supposed to draw the eye?  That's just about the last thing I want to do.  So, yeah.  Needless to say, my childhood was not cluttered with ballet classes. 

Back to the class.  I loved it.  It was fun.  And freeing.  And just about everything you'd want in a dance class.  And because the instructor is so awesome, it was okay for all levels kind of class.  Then about a month ago, she told us that her relationship with the gym was ending and she wasn't sure when her last class was going to be (it turned out to be last Saturday).  I am following her to a dance studio for a weekly class which is great, but it's an extra expense which isn't.  :P

And then last night. 

Oy. 

What to say? 

Have you heard of Zumba?  It's the latest fitness craze.  It's a fun class with latin dance steps mixed into regular cardio exercise.  Last night wasn't that.  The gym is trying to say it's the same thing as the class the previous instructor taught, but it's not.  It's so, so not.  For one thing?  The instructor was totally not prepared.  I mean at all.  I'm sure she's a great person, and that when she's prepared it's fine, but frankly, I don't even think she was keeping the count.  And if you're going to lead a cardio workout, probably you should be upbeat and not seem like you really just need a nap. 

So I am really disappointed.  I have a membership that allows me use of all the gyms in the area and I travel to get this one.  If this is what the Wednesday class is going to be like, it's not worth the travel time and the gas and the parking.  Now the question is, do I complain?  Or do I wait it out and if it doesn't change complain then?    Or do I wait it out a couple of weeks to see if it changes and then if it doesn't just ditch it all together?  I think I'll probably do the latter.  I did notice that the studio which used to nearly burst at the seams when it was the former instructor, was more than half empty last night.  So I think a lot of people decided to not even give it a try and just ditch it altogether.  Eh.  I'll probably wait and see.

ETA:  I just realized (I think I'd blocked it from my memory until just now), but the worst part of it all, aside from the seeming to be sleepy and having really low energy and the fact that I suspect she kept forgetting to keep count because I noticed that we didn't seem to be doing the same things for the same count, even when it was repeated and need I say that if I noticed something off it was really, really off)?  She played Lady Gaga.  Let me repeat that.  She played Lady Gaga.  And the worst part of that?  It was the best routine of the night.  *shudder*

South Carolina was out of the news and I could forget about Mark Sanford and all his drama, here we go again.  The state Ethics Commission has apparently been taking the last three months to gather evidence to decide whether or not Sanford broke state laws (AP).  The legislature is then going to decide to impeach or not to impeach.  I sometimes think that Sanford must be a fan of Korean dramas.  I just had a thought.  Maybe Sanford did all this to make a video to submit to KoreAm!  Maybe he wants to produce the winning entry for the KoreAm Drama Fo' Yo Mama contest!  What?  It's possible. 

Well, I suppose if the U.S. Catholic bishop council thingamabob is going to crusade against same sex marriage, at least they're going back to the basics and also crusading against divorce and livin' in sin (TBS).    The whole thing about marriage being an institution made by God the Creator and saying that it's "a permanent, faithful, fruitful partnership between one man and one woman" for "the good of the spouses" and "the procreation and education of children"?   And?

Well, with the exception of the procreation part (and even then it's not like it's impossible), I don't see why marriage shouldn't work between same sex couples.  And is the council really trying to suggest that if a hetero couple cannot have biological children, they have no business being married?  If marriage, at its best, is supposed to be a permanent, faithful, fruitful partnership for the good of the spouses, why does that preclude it working for the LGBT community?  I don't believe it does.  And the whole idea of "[m]ale-female complementarity" being somehow essential to marriage?  Is it really maleness and femaleness that is the sole driving force behind marriage?  Because really? 

That is just not okay.  It's one thing for the Church to decide that it will not perform such marriages is fine.  It's kind of like being in a club and you have to abide by club rules and as much it may suck, there it is.  But to actively oppose it for others?  Hello, council, meet the non-Catholics, of which there are many.  Sure there are a lot of non-practicing Catholics, but even if you add the non-practicing ones to the active ones?  That's neither here nor there.  For an institution as large as the Church to rally against a group of people doesn't seem like leading and advising.  It seems like bullying.

Then again, the advisory letter seems to believe that traditional marriage and same-sex ones somehow exist in different realities and that opposition to the latter is not discrimination since you know, allowing same would like totally threaten the very fabric of the space time continuum!

Okay, so I mock.  It's either that or weep.