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...addition to their size-related concerns, students also aired grievances about HLS's facilities and its largesse. According to both Warren and Meltzer, the sub-par quality of the Hemenway Gym came up frequently in student responses to McKinsey's inquiries...
...last economic boom, people paid guys to score them coke and hookers. I was in high school at the time, but that's what I gathered from Bret Easton Ellis novels. These days, when name dropping has been replaced by gym dropping ("I was wondering, while I was on the Stair Master..."), rich people are spending their money to keep pleasure away from them. I know a guy who belongs to a gym that charges him extra for not going. And I've got a guy who keeps me from getting the phone numbers of hot, dangerous women...
There is also a guy you can hire to sit at your table at a restaurant to prevent you from ordering high-fat foods, like some sort of Zone Diet Escort Service. So last Thursday I called this guy, surrogate willpower professional David Kirsch, a gym owner who gets $150 an hour as a trainer, and asked him to dinner. But since Kirsch has so many celebrity clients (Ivana Trump buys him dinner often, and model James King paid him to go with her to Paris restaurants during the runway shows), he already had plans. So he agreed to come...
Sounds silly, but it was enough to get me to check my calendar each day. Once I'd had my fun, I started entering real appointments. I signed up for weekly classes at the gym for the next year. I scheduled the cleaning lady to come every two weeks. I even astonished my roommate by firing off an e-mail reminder to clean up for the cleaning lady. But then I had trouble. For two days, the website wouldn't come up on my Mac at work. One day my horoscope didn't show up, and another day the local...
...Often, if I don't have a meeting scheduled, I'll go to the gym at three or four in the afternoon and just stay a little later...Some people with families take their work home to spend more time with their kids," he says...