Butter wouldn't melt, eh?

Butter wouldn't melt, eh? Some of the Nova kinder kids
Originally uploaded by emkuntze.

I'm knackered. After work last night I decided to head for the gym. Its like many other gyms, in that its a very different place in the evening. I'm used to going in the afternoon or early evening, pre-dinner when, as you would expect, the place is mostly frequented by the retired who use the gym as an excuse to do what they do best; put the world to rights, have a good natter and spend hours in the baths and sauna. At night, its full of blokes lifting weights that look bigger and heavier than they are, professional women in designer gear and die-hard swim fanatics. I did, therefore, feel slightly out of place. I solved this problem by the toddler method, i.e. I believed if I couldn't see them, they couldn't see me, so I took my glasses off and everywhere looked instantly blurry-er, and a little less like a Soviet training facility.

Had a fabulous run. Fabulous, insofar as I was so busy trying to get the connection sorted out in my headphones that when I actually looked at the display I had run considerably further than I thought I could. So please, send you faulty headsets this way, I may yet have a use for them...

Today has been pretty tiring, partly because of my fitness hangover, and partly because I had Ataru the human atomic bomb this morning (remarkably restrained I might add, and to be fair, he may be genki as the day is long, but he's never, ever a chore), inadvertantly taught the same lesson twice, forgetting what I had just said, and confusing it with something I had told the other class earlier, and to top it all I had my new Kinder class last lesson.

Boy oh boy.

My other kinder class has two little girls in, one of whom is 3 and has the attention of someone who is, well, 3 and the other one gets distracted to say the least, so in any given lesson I could well have two small children looking with great interest at a spot on the wall. This class was somewhat different. The bell went off so I wandered to the kids room. I could hear me coming from the shouts of "Its Emma K!" and much squealing. Two of them dragged me into the kids room (remarkable strength for a [tiny] four year old) before I could take my shoes off. Bless. 40 minutes later I was ready to drop off in the staff room.

Only two more days until a lie-in.