"I'm so excited. I'm so scared," warbled Jessie.

So I'm hitting a wall. Turns out wogging in a circle is kinda boring. Even with music and the pretty trees, still boring to go around the same track over and over and over again day after day. So I have not been as diligent as I should be with my wogging, and I decided to do something different for a little while to make sure I keep moving. I got an email for a free week at Curves, and I went this morning. Granted, it's me and some ladies in their 60s, but it was pretty fun. You don't do anything for too long so I didn't get bored. I think I'll go back tomorrow morning. More good news: 4 pounds down. Yea!!

On another note, let's talk about the gang at Bayside High. If you haven't been introduced to Saved By The Bell, I am going to say that you're missing out. It came on when I was in elementary school for 4 glorious years on Saturday mornings. I honestly hoped that high school would be that way; there's the six cool kids (well, 5 cool kids and the token dork) who get into all kinds of schennanigans but never get in trouble. And everyone loved them. Oh how my dreams came atumbling down when I got to high school myself. Does anyone remember the poignant episode where Jessie got addicted to OTC no-doz pills? That was awesome. Especially her break-down scene as she sang/cried onto Zach's shoulder. Ah, sweet memories.

But I was incredibly happy when Zach and Kelly ran off to Vegas to elope; that was just the perfect way for the series to end. Now, Chuck Klosterman writes in Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs about this tv show, and he focuses on what he has termed "the Tori Paradox." Does anyone remember Tori? She showed up for a few months their senior year of high school just as Kelly and Jessie took a break from the show. Nothing explained, nothing said, just Kelly & Jessie out, Tori in. Now, the issue of the Tori paradox is that I buy into it. Essentially Chuck says that when you spend so much time with a group of people in school or whatever, you just assume that in your memories everyone was always there. Not true. You know how friendships shift and people get mad and make up and all that stuff? Well, looking back our minds seem to forget those details and it's like in my mind all of my friends were there all of the time during all these crazy events. But that's not really how it happened. This has caused me to question something: if the people we hang out with can change in my mind's version of history, was it really crucial for them to be there in the first place? Or the actual question: how important is my attendance at social functions? Am I noted? Would anyone really miss me if I didn't show up for stuff? These are the questions of my days.

Now, Chuck doesn't end his book here, but rather throws in a commentary regarding the Left Behind series of books. If you know me, you know that I cannot stand these books ("books" is a term used loosely here) and not only for the poor quality of writing. So to find someone who is sarcastic and witty that spends pages discussing them does good things for my soul.

All right. Work to do. People to call. Places to visit. Let's hope it matters. :)