"Physical exercise can improve both your mental and physical health … Exercise helps alleviate stress and can make you more productive." So states the University of Michigan Health System website. And today, I have proof!
Before lunch, my boss was telling us how he'd enjoyed the rebroadcast of an interview with Katharine Hepburn. Since I simply adore the old girl, as does my boss' wife, we went on a bit about how incredibly cool she was. The art director I've been working with -- the one with the marital problems -- appeared annoyed/distracted. Later she snapped at me because of all the work she has to do before the presentation Tuesday morning (that gives her a full day and a half, not counting evenings and weekends, which I have been known to work). Seems that not only were we canonizing a woman who slept with someone else's husband (that damn Hepburn!), we were insensitive to the fact that no one has as much to do as she does.
So when I left for lunch, and the health club, I was exasperated. Then I did 15 minutes on the treadmill, 15 minutes on the stationery bike, and 16 reps on one of the arm machines. I made myself clean and pretty, touching up my make up and cologne, and returned to work …
… Where now I find the idea of a slutty, licentious old Hepburn pretty damn amusing.
So one of my coworkers owes the good people of Bally's Total Fitness a debt of gratitude. A little aerobic exercise makes her easier to take.
(Again, I am trying not to be an insensitive bitch. But it's hard.)
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