I know that my past couple of blog posts have been pretty heavy stuff. So think of this post as a comic relief of sorts. I really want to get this down before I forget it!
One of the things I've been trying to do a little bit more (as I kind of eluded to in my previous post) is spend quality time with my family. Last night, my bro and I were hanging out and just chitchatting about our high school.
I had forgotten all about high school phys. ed. until yesterday and now I'm really disturbed by what I remember: principally, the fact that we had one change of clothes in our gym lockers and no time to shower. Starting in 8th grade, we were required to change clothes for gym -- I guess that is the magical age at which you start stinking after working out :) They were pretty strict about it. It's an automatic F for the day if you don't look like you've changed (although, I would argue that it's pretty hard to tell if you wear a t shirt and sweat pants to school ... which is basically what we always wore to school). Because of this, we were terrified of ever NOT having clothes in our gym locker. So we never took it out of our gym locker. At least in the girls' locker room. I guess I can't really speak for the boys.
But I actually think this is way worse than just letting us do phys ed class in our regular clothes, because we'd literally have the same gym clothes in our gym locker for one marking period at a time. That, ladies and gents, is 9 weeks. Ew.
So this is what happens: you bring a set of gym clothes on your first day of gym for the quarter. You wear and sweat profusely in them for 42 minutes a day (if I remember correctly) and then you throw the still-damp set back into your locker, and lock it up where it will not ventilate. And change into your CLEAN clothes without showering. And head off to your next class as quickly as possible so you don't get slapped with a detention. Rinse (NOT!), repeat.
You're basically marinating in your own sweat for 9 weeks at a time!
