Lets' see.. how to begin this entry. I got very emotional this week-end. So I went to the gym and worked out a bunch. (Okay well I jogged for 12 minutes and pretended I was in a time-stretching machine and it had really been an hour).

So the new gym, which looks amazing and totally unlike my absolutely favorite old gym has this curvy staircase, which is how you get to and from your change room to the machines. It's all fine when you're on the way down looking like Miss. America in sweats and a neat little ponytails.. On the way back up though? When you're dragging your left leg and an asthma inhaler is hanging off your parched lower lip like a hermit crab full of steroids. Not such a good idea folks, no sirree.

Also I decided to start doing some weights again, 'cause I am finding pencils heavy these days.. So I started using some of the more complicated looking machines with pulleys and stacks of weights hanging off metal frames. Only to discover that the new gym is chock full of what we handily called stare-errists. Fucking dudes were like peeking around things in their shameful enthusiasm. I noticed many of the other girls having the same expression of tortured patience. I hope the fellas get over their excitement and go back to lifting weights like they should.

Speaking of the genders and the funny little things that sometimes make friction between the camps. Here is an interesting article that I have only skimmed about how we can encourage more more women to go into engineering. A Modest Proposal. what's interesting is that programs such as these are already in existence at places like Mills Collegewhere the interdisciplinary computer science degree is specifically offered to women who have a bachelors degree in a non-science field and wish to transition.

The proposal being offered by Joyce Park is less geared towards an academic specialization and towards becoming self-taught, engaging with tech in the entrepreneurial fashion. Anyways, it's interesting and now I have to go to a meeting and finish this later - late late late.