Out of the Loop

This past weekend was very interesting, and quite educational.  Friday night, Sanjay and I headed over to Depaul's Lincoln Park campus to meet up with his girlfriend, Karla, who was working at Fest '04.  Fest is an outdoor concert/beer garden/picnic type thing, and probably would have been a good time had it not started pouring buckets of rain over thousands of drunken college kids.  It has rained here for the past week and a half like a banshee, and for those of you who don't know, a banshee is a monster (props to skillz for the quote).  I'm not talking spring time sun showers and light misting.  It has been like Armageddon.  Black skies, torrential downpours, flash flooding, the works.  I'm seriously considering building an Ark, so if you want in, let me know.  After a few hours in the rain, we made our way over to The Red Lion on Lincoln Ave.  Sanjay and I were flying solo for a while, and after a Jameson's on the rocks in tribute to the Klizmatic, we were then joined by a friend of ours, Erin.  Erin brought a couple of ladies with her as well, and Amanda and Kathleen were set to meet us out, so the night was looking good.  I'm not really sure how we got onto the topic, but one of Erin's friends brought up "Kegels."  Apparently they're pronounced kay-galls, and there was much debate about the proper spelling and pronunciation among the ladies of the table.  Kegels are designed to strengthen and give voluntary control to the Pubicicygenus muscle of women.  Basically it's an exercise for their Vagina.  Now, I had been aware that there was a muscle exercise a woman could do that was supposed to enhance sexual stimulation for both partners, but I had no idea that these exercises were a normal occurrence.  These things are like religion; girls do them while they're driving, sitting at a desk, watching TV, probably right now while you're reading this.  I'm not sure why, but I was amazed by this.  The girls sitting there at the table with us, describing them, were probably doing them while they were talking to us.  They told me that girls are told to do these things all the time, especially after pregnancy, and to control bladder functionality when older.  You'd think controlling the bladder would be a built in function like breathing, and they wouldn't have to "work out" to keep it in check.  Nope, they're flexing it up, all the time.  These things are serious, they have numbered sets, and they increase the sets daily.  I've even heard they can work up a sweat trying to crank out a tough set.  The conversation went on for a few hours, and provided for quite the good time at the bar.  Sanjay and I were clueless to the underground world of vaginal exercises, and apparently missed that portion of sex education.  No big deal, because we absorbed a tremendous wealth of knowledge at the bar that evening.  So, flex on ladies, except now I'm going to be wondering if you're doing it while I'm talking to you.

On Saturday I had to drive to Midway Airport.  On the way there, there was a storefront with a huge billboard which read "COMMING SOON, USED AUTO PARTS"  You'd think between the person that designed the sign, to the person who printed the sign, to anyone who worked at the printer, to anyone else along the way who might have had anything at all to do with the sign they would have noticed the blatant spelling error.  Guess not, those sort of things amaze me.  Hopefully the 90% of my friends that are hoping to become teachers can help remedy the problem.

-schrags

http://wellness.ucdavis.edu/women_health/pregnancy/all_about_kegels/