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August 14, 2004
olympic sobbing
Yesterday I finished a draft of the newsletter at work I want to get out before September, and it felt good to hit that milestone. Except for the splitting headache and upper back pain at the end of the day. I think I really tense up when I'm finishing deadlines on the computer. Amazing how it went away when I got away from the computer and into the gym.
I took it easy last night and watched my favorite sports event of all - the opening ceremonies for the Olympics! My next favorite sports events would be the closing ceremonies, rugby, and the baseball world series, in that order.
I totally buy into the hype of the ceremonies, and was sobbing freely during the whole thing, like I always do. I dunno, maybe its the ideals of peace, competitiveness and oneness and all that that get to me. Plus the ceremonies are just getting so cool these days. I especially loved the Greek mythology that permeated the whole theme. Plus all the hot muscular Greeks that performed in the classical Greek characterizations during the performance. But what was Bjork doing there? While we love her dearly, she didn't seem to fit in with the whole thing. And did the giant Olympic torch look like a big doobie to any of you too, or was it just me?
NBC did a pretty good job of it, except that they SKIPPED KYRGIZSTAN DURING THE COMMERCIAL BREAK, DAMMIT! I noticed anyway. I love seeing all the traditional outfits of each country, and learning about nations I've never heard of. It seems like athletes from any country seem to always be really handsome, or maybe that's me. I see the racial origin of the unibrow seems to originate from Syria, Armenia and Tunisia. Olympic hottie to watch out for: woofy decathlete Tom Pappas of USA, who has Greek heritage.
Posted by jimbo at August 14, 2004 1:51 PM
Comments
Re: The Flame - Heck yeah! A joint or a pen stylus.
The gymnastics competition is my top fave. The swimming and diving are next on the list.
Posted by: Lee at August 15, 2004 3:33 AM
Bob Costas sucks. How many times does he have to belittle the teams and say that they won't win any medals? How many country's names does he have to mispronounce? I swear at times I could hear the disgust in Katie's voice after a really inane comment by Bob.
Posted by: Mark at August 15, 2004 9:19 AM
True, if you don't hand Bob an intelligent soundbyte, he does have a tendency to yammer away.
Posted by: jimbo at August 15, 2004 10:58 AM
awww Jimbo cried during the ceremony?
Bubbles cried a bit too....so chrisafer and I made fun of him the whole time.
Bubbles, Chrisafer and I drank whiskey and toasted all the teams that we liked. Needless to say we cant really remember the end.... did it involve a huge joint?
Posted by: GURL at August 15, 2004 11:02 AM