Sat 9/18/04 9:30a Culver City

First, a couple of people complained to me, while I was setting up, how unfair the sign-up system was - how there must be a better, more organized way to let 70+ people into the aerobics room, fighting for boards, fighting for space, than the system I already have in place. Not that they could come up with one.

Then, another couple of people at the near corner of the room decided to keep on talking while I was doing the pre-class intro. They managed to carry on the conversation into the warm up. By that time I was past furious. Smoke was coming out of my head, if that was not obvious.

For the grand finale, a regular of many years who works for the PD, decided to take the class after pulling a night shift. He had no sleep, no food, and he promptly fainted in class. Not knowing what was going on at the time, for a few seconds I thought I was looking at a dead person. He woke up and seemed to be fine, but that was about as much as I could take.

Mon 9/6/04 9:00a Culver City (Labor Day Class)

It was a fun class. The key to teaching an extended class is that you can't peak too quickly - intensity and choreography-wise. No one can sustain a high level of intensity for an hour, and I get bored quickly if all the moves are called in the beginning. Teaching class is like going through a bell curve - you should always start slow, then build it up and end in a climax, and finally cool down and stretch.

Fri 8/27/04 6:00p Culver City

It was *almost* the "Best Class Ever". We couldn't get Robert to come teach. Guess you can't make someone do something he doesn't want to do. Had he been there though, we would have sold another 100 tickets.

Donna was "in her element". Dean was well-received, even by those who never had him before in the past. We made hundreds of dollars in ticket sales. Rochelle, the coordinator, asked me before the class was over "When can we do this again?"