SAME STORY, FUNNY ACCENT

Breakthrough: Going to bed before 1 and getting up before 9 is the best thing I've found in ages.

Oh yes, that reminds me. Last week the Korean self-defense instructor who is always trying to hit on me by telling me I'm fat offered me a free month of "training" at his studio (prior to this he had said something about cutting me a deal since I can't afford expensive martial arts, although that's not even what he teaaches). I asked him why he wanted me to go there for a month, free. "Because you are nice person and I don't want you to gain weight." "I'm not gaining weight." "You're not?" "No." (Need I mention the hand gesture he has used since this argument began, the two hands at the waist area, slowly expanding like the brackets used in comics to indicate movement?) Even a list of my current exercise activities (Pilates, jogging, biking) didn't stop him. He merely waved his hand and rolled his eyes, saying, "That doesn't do anything." Since when does learning self-defense ignite any kind of significant weight loss? He came in today and bought his strange-looking kid a piece of poundcake.