As part of my summer plans, I've made a goal of going to the gym at least days 5 days a week as soon as I'm done with school. The day to start was today. I did go, it was really hard, and I'm glad I'm done for the day. The time for me on the treadmill or whatever machine I'm on crawwwwwlllllls so badly I usually end up stopping before my planned time is up. Yes, they have TVs--but they are almost always on some stupid ESPN show or something. If it was the Food Network I could stay there for an hour and not want to leave. Today's programming? I could barely pull myself away. They had the monitor tuned to the National Spelling Bee Championship. I know you'll all agree--there's nothing more motivating at the gym than watching the National Spelling Bee while you're on the treadmill.

I'd like to buy a vowel, Alex.