My Supernatural Encounter/Workout Stories

At around 3 AM last night, I witnessed one of the scariest things in my life. I woke up (I think) facing the window in my room staring at the crack between where the light shined through. All of a sudden my heart started pounding, the room got darker, the light outside the window got brighter, and I felt a great pressure on my legs, as if someone was sitting again. Now you may all be thinking, "So what..? that's not that scary..." but let me explain.


Over this summer I spent a week in one of the most amazing places in the world, a medieval castle in Tuscany. The tenants there told us a story about how the castle was haunted by a ghost. Naturally, I scoffed, like any American teen would. The story goes that the original owner lived in the castle sometime in the 1600's, and governed the farmers that grew the sunflowers, olives, and grapes in the valley below (yes. the castle was on a cliff, overlooking a valley . fucking awesome.) He had a wife, but he also had a mistress who was particularly fond of blue dresses. His wife eventually found out and had the mistress beheaded, as medieval wives are wont to do. She kept the head on her dresser in her bedroom for the next five generations. In the years that followed, some of the adult men who stayed at the castle witnessed a blue light in the reflection of a mirror, and felt a great pressure on their legs.

Needless to say, I was quite unable to sleep for the next 6 hours, and had to go find a night-light that I haven't used since I was 7 (Its a seashell nightlight!). I've never felt that terrified before O_o

Now for the work - out stories. The gym I go to (ClubOne Fitness) is basically the gym for the incredibly rich. Registration is $225 plus a $75 monthly fee. Luckily Mom works at Intuit (the company that makes Turbo Tax, so they'll never go outta business lol) gets a free membership there, so it works out. There are two types of people who go here: The incredibly rich and incredibly outta shape, and their children, who are mostly some of the hottest girls I have ever seen...Nevertheless, it puts quite a damper on normal people (like myself) who are trying to get in shape. My trainer is a brutal brutal tiny asian woman reminisque of Marshall's trainer in a certain episode of How I Met Your Mother.

This morning, I was on my treadmill, running at a gentleman's pace of 6.5 mph intending to do my usual 1.5 miles, and then walking for another 1.5. Two girl's who happen to be in my english class at evergreen (if they can afford membership here, why are they at community college?!) got on treadmills on either side of me, cranked it up to 7.5 and began running. Not to be outdone, i cranked it up to 7.5 as well and continued. About 45 seconds later, I surreptitiously dropped it back to 7 mph, and continued running. 2 miles pass by; I'm dying inside, my legs are screaming at me, my shirt is drenched in sweat, my hair is matted, and I'm breathing in ragged gasps, while the two girls next to me bounce along, seemingly at ease. Thankfully my phone starts ringing, so I slam the giant red "STOP" button and jump off and answer the phone. The girls both look at me, smirks, winks and continues running.

Its a real ball-buster :'(


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