wednesday/thursday

nothing new to report. only i nearly died on tuesday because we had a substitute pilates instructor (she is great!) and she works us SO HARD! also, just like monday i return to my car after working out and find another message from argentine #883. hey miss e, i guess we really are playing phone tag! so call me back when you get a chance and... well, just call me back! bye.

so i called him back. of course i asked for no reason for not hearing from him since the previous thursday - he is not my boyfriend so i have no reason to ask. the goal of tantalizing him recounting tales of the hot tub was accomplished, as well as reporting the discovery of the steamroom. he said he went to his friend's in a town an hour and a half away and stayed over saturday, but was sick with a cold for the whole weekend so he would have been no good on the weekend anyway. so we chatted as i drove home. i ended the conversation on arriving because we were about to eat. it ended with me saying the forever question mark i guess i'll talk to you later! so we'll see.

oh yeah, and i get back to the S household and Mrs. S. is there. i'm thinking, well i'll get my stuff and make my escape! but no... she asks me if i want to stay for dinner (no, i've got to go to the gym) and then asks if it's alright if i stay another night. for five seconds i think she is joking but she tells me that she'd rather have me here to get the girls on the bus (even though i slept through their previous morning departures) because she had to get up at 4:45 the next day.

yesterday was nonstop. after work i had to go tutor. i was there for two hours while the student put together his two "cereal boxes" for a project. i could have planned this better - i feel like i wasted two hours because i didn't provide much instruction in that time. should have had him make the boxes in his own free time. oh well - while he struggled with construction paper and tape, i planned my tutoring for him for the next two weeks. he's going to have a lot of work to do! but i really want him to catch up. it's not really my fault or his that he is behind, it's for his teacher's delinquency in getting his work to me. by the time i got in my car and realized it was 18:40 it was too late to work out and also too late to see amarte así. because yesterday was my brother's birthday (big 1-6; he got an ipod mini. it's so cute. i want one) he got to choose a restaurant. so we went to steak and shake. that's where we went when he turned 15. this time though, bacon cheese burger addict that i now am, there were no complaints from me! i'd never tried a SnS burger but it was surprizingly good and just the right size to satisfy me. the following conversation happened upon my completion of the burger and several fries:

sister 1: why didn't you finish your fries?
me: because i'm full. that's how people get fat.
sister 1: but you need fat, you're too skinny.
me: but i'm a healthy skinny.
sister 1: you call being bone-thin healthy?
(i actually base this healthy on the fact that i still get my period. if i were too thin i wouldn't get it. i kept this information to myself)
me: it's because i have a thin frame! look at this wrist - how do you expect this wrist to get any bigger except if i did wrist exercises?
dad: (subtly nodding his head towards the fat people at the table next to us) you could ask those people over there!

i looked at the next table. the people were, in fact, very fat.