The Downside of Exercise(and other ramblings)

  I've been worried lately about working out.  I can now run for 4 minutes without stopping at 7 mph, which I'm happy about, and I can leg press 300 pounds without extreme effort, and I'm down another 2 pounds...all fine and dandy, but I've noticed a change in my attitude.  I know that working out can increase testosterone in a guy, and either I'm getting stressed with other things--not a far-fetched notion--or I'm starting to get more aggressive with the boost in testosterone.  I'm hoping it levels out soon.  If not, then I'll have to start meditating or something.  I don't want to quit working out and go back to getting winded by blinking too much.

  I was at a pool recently with my girlfriend and saw what must have been one of the trashiest women I've seen in a long time. She had her hair in one of those ugly buns that sit on top of the head, and a swimsuit that was probably a size or two too small.  That's bad enough, but the worst thing was that she decided to sit in the pool and start smoking.  The fuck?   Excuse me, but this isn't a fucking ash tray.  I have nothing against people smoking on the deck near the pool, but don't shake your ashes into my damn swimming water.  Normally I would've just let it slide, but I felt more assertive this time...which isn't necessarily a bad thing, considering I have trouble asserting myself.  I was thinking in my head "I'll let this one slide, shithead, but I swear I'll splash you if you light another."  Fortunately, she didn't light another.  She was befouling the air in another way, as well.  She swore at this little black kid for splashing too much in the pool.  She was sitting in the kiddie pool (it connects to the main pool).  You're going to curse at a child for being a damn child?  I mean, sure, the kid kinda annoyed me, too.  However, I didn't take it upon myself to bully him for acting normally under the circumstances.

 Not sure if I want to go to that pool again on Saturdays...it was fine last Saturday, but this one blew.  If it's not smokers, then there's the bacon skanks who sit by the pool for hours spraying on sunscreen until there's a cloud of aerosol around them like they're trying to escape.  You can tan any-damn-where, please quit trying to show everyone how awesomely burnt your skin is, and don't say you aren't showing off, because it is so about flaunting.

  For the record, I don't have anything against tan people.  I just think getting a tan while being outside is a good way to tan, not forcibly subjecting your body to ultra-violet rays just to look "good".  It doesn't look good, it wrinkles your skin and makes it look like rawhide.

  I don't have a picture of the trashy woman, but I think you'll find that this illustration is spot on.