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Umm....okay....the management is seriously screwing with the building.

First off, who hires a maid service and actually forces them to wear a maid uniform? That seems to be what they've done. And it's a cheap ass maid uniform too (seriously, looks like a cast off from a 60s porn movie or something cause it's disturbingly see through in some places). It's just...too wrong. Siigh, I don't know, it just offends me to see this old black woman forced to clean in the thing. Especially when all the maintenance men go around with their uniform shirts untucked! (sorry, whatever you'd say about the old ones, their shirts were always tucked in and they had NO creep factor at all).

Second, for the first time in my entire time here, I worked out downstairs with out the a/c coming on once! Which is amazing--for 4 years now, the gym has been almost arctic temperatures unless the a/c is broken. Even in the winter. Which, granted, I haven't always appreciated, but at least kept the smells of food in people's sweat from being overpowering after they've only been exercising for ten minutes. Siigh, me thinks they turned the a/c off for the winter. Not positive, but I suspect.

Third, they took out the water cooler in the gym! This is insane. But I guess the three bottles or so that were gone through in a week were too expensive. That or they admitted the maid couldn't lift them to replace them.

Fourth, umm...yeah, cleaning gym equipment with a feather duster. I love having the dust pushed around so I can inhale in. Plus no more disinfection. ummm, gross.

Did I mention that w/out the a/c the dust in the air is almost heavy enough to make me cough? Yeah, add that one on there.

Siigh, I'm so buying my gym membership at school this week. Cause I also forsee the gym suddently going under renovation without any warning whatsoever after the wonderful notice on the brick pointing and lobby renovation.

winter=hell

All, I need is a coldish wind to remind me that. Woke up with a sinus headache (probably from the dry air. Really should drag the humidifier out and clean it) that went a way mostly. But as soon as I stepped out in the cold air, the sinuses informed me that they were very unhappy and why hadn't I found a way to move to California or somewhere warmer yet. :P Stupid sinuses.

I did work out this morning and discovered exactly why the sore spot in my neck wasn't going away --- that entire side (yes, this is the bad one that still gets very annoyed from the strain two years ago) was TIGHT. Working out wasn't too painful and not of the bad pain. Buy my nerve plexus in my shoulder was talking to me whenever I stretched between sets. Siigh...I would say that I miss the days of when my body didn't talk to me, but I don't think I've ever been lucky enough to experience those.

For a bit of good spam, I did make blueberry bread again last night. *mmmmm* I know I'm going very carb heavy and my joints will probably complain about it later in the winter, but I honestly don't know quite what else to do. If I'm going to try to work out (and wake up), I need more calories, and quite frankly, I still haven't figured out how to do that when I can't eat fast food. Granted, lazy cook here. But still, fat wise, it's either a quarter of a cup of butter for mashed potatoes or a quarter of a cup in bread. And if I do the mashed potatoes, I'll only be eating the threeish meals I eat now..this way, I'll reinforce my grazing when I get burnt out on nuts (which I am. Very. Very very.)

Okay, enough whining. Time to focus and work since my head seems to have warmed up enough for there to not be any shooting pains.

Everything isn't cheaper in the midwest

Case in point --- car rentals!! Okay, I can understand being jammed some on a car rental when I want to return it to a different place, but making the price 84-180 dollars to do that, ridiculous. A rental for the entire weekend here in philly is only going to cost me 60-90 dollars! This is ridiculous.

Oh, and Hertz, do you really think anyone will rent from you when you charge 300 bucks for an entire week in the midwest? Geez.

So, are there any horror stories about why I shouldn't rent from Budget, Thrifty or National? Avis actually has the cheapest one way, but if it's only going to be fifty bucks more for a rental for the entire week somewhere else, I don't know why I shouldn't. Saves my parents some gas. And everyone seems to advertise that there are unlimited free miles --- is that a misnomer or what? My mother seems to think that there are mileage charges, but I know she's not rented a car in a while (if ever. Moving vans, yes, cars, no).