I met one of my coworkers at the local 24 Hr Fitness today and trained her during lunch. She’s been to the gym before, but doesn’t have the basics down, so I had to start with some fitness/body education, then spend a lot of time correcting her form. Even with the form instruction, I had to adjust her throughout the set and she had some trouble understanding what it is I want her to do and where I want her elbow to be, etc. She was such a good sport, never complained, did everything I said. She says she doesn’t sweat much, so I know her metabolism’s low, and it took a while, but I was determined to make her sweat and I did. I underestimated the amount of time it takes to work out when I’m training someone inexperienced and need to work in with her, so the first exercise we did, chest flies on a machine, took way too long. The next two, bent-over rows and step-back lunges, I selected because we could do them at the same time. We superset lunges with the rows (free weights) and as she put her opposite knee and hand on the bench for support, the way most people do it, I did mine simultaneously standing on one leg, which allowed me to be next to her w/o needing my own bench. I was hoping to get at least 5 exercises in, but only did 3. At least I did hit every major muscle group. I don’t want to start her off too strong, anyway. We were so short on time that after we were done, I made her do 10 mins on the elliptical while I ran into the locker room to shower. She has a free afternoon and we just got a criminal trial.

When I got back to work, a half-page sized Priority Mail envelope was waiting on my seat. I got my passport! YAY! Taking into consideration the long weekend holiday, it took almost exactly 4 weeks on regular processing (I mailed it out August 2). I feel sheepish that I, as a government employee, am nowhere near as efficient as to only take half the time that we tell the public to expect processing. The new passport is flimsy.