Exercise 101

 Bill and I have been thinking of purchasing a treadmill, sort of like this one.  We have a neat slider-type of machine that you get to work your arms.  That's the one I'm using, now.  We also have another piece of equipment that turns you upside down.  Bill hooked me into that one once, and I ended up running to the bathroom!

I've sort of started back on my exercise program.  This is the program that I've invented myself, and consists of whatever I can fit in in a 24 hour period:
After arriving at school (during the weekdays), I try to make it a habit of walking everywhere.  This means, of course, that I must have a reason for walking down the halls.  Sometimes I'm just tired of looking at my students during silent reading time, and I don't have a book to read myself, so I like to make up an important reason to head off to the office, or the bathroom (I usually don't have to make up a reason for the bathroom trips).  Sometimes I just like to wander the halls in search of lost students.  This happened last week, when I had a student that was so upset in class, she asked if she could just walk it off. HUH?? I let her, since she's actually a pretty good kid, but she didn't come back to class at all.  I searched all the girl's bathrooms, checked with the office, counselors, and finally found her sister in Seminary and told her what had happened.  I got word the next period that she had called her mother, and went with her.  That walking counted for a day or two of exercise, don't you think?