Jill Murray
SImulation. Do not try this at home.
We’re getting close to the end, and it’s starting to show. Some people have long surpassed the 28/28 goal, and now have shiny star stickers in boxes on the leaderboard, stretching all the way up to 40 classes or more!
This has come at a price, with the most dedicated contenders practically moving into the studio. We take our meals at SweatShop. We leave changes of clothes at SweatShop. We nap at SweatShop between classes. We go out for greasy food together after class, and have conversations that make no sense, often involving such musings as
“What if we could use ONION RINGS instead of HULA HOOPS?”
On the plus side, this has created a real sense of community. Those of us who are participating in SweatFest have bonded into a kind of cohort, moving through the month as a milling blob of increasingly disheveled people whose ever more bulging quadriceps fit less and less comfortably into the legs of our collective pants.
On the down side, our loved ones have started to miss us. To quote Simon,
“SweatFest is the worst thing ever; I hate it.
We’ve created a support group on Facebook to help with the separation anxiety, but we know, deep down, that as SweatFest draws to a close, it will be us, the SweatFesters who most need support. Only 8 SweatFest classes remain, and after that, it will be over. WHAT WILL WE DO? WHERE WILL WE GO?
To that I say, Dance, SweatFesters, Dance. Ask not what tomorrow will hold.
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Jill, what have you done to my sweet and studious niece????? I never imagined that she would hula hoop with an onion ring around her waist!!!! What a waste of good junk food!!!!! Actually…very proud of Jane and also impressed with both of you and your stamina and determination!!!! Go girls!!!!!
Debbie, it was JANE’S IDEA. She ASKED me to do it. Yes, that’s right, your sweet niece is a BAD INFLUENCE. (And a great bad influence, at that.)
I know…she can be very wicked…too much Wizard of Oz in her life. She pretends to be the “good witch” but those close to her know the truth!!!!Hehehehecacklecackle!!!!! (she’s a girl after my own heart)