Flannery O'Connor managed to create something as sad as The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, though without the love, and as wretched as Tobacco Road, but without the what I hope was supposed to be humor. Plus a tetch of A Handful of Dust. Quite cheery.
Precor elliptical, 15' @ 13/20 resistance and 20/20 incline.
Lower body and abdominal weights.