Last night I had a lot of crap work to get done -- I needed to do laundry, straighten up my room, revise Kate's business cards, do a little more Ireland research, cut photos out for my mentee, etc. I spent the majority of the night holled up in my room and as some background noise, I decided to turn on the Olympics.
I haven't watched the Olympics at all this time around because -- and I don't mean to sound callus -- I just don't care. Winter Olympics kind of suck, and the only thing I even am remotely interested in is the figure skating, which I guess makes me a typical double X chromosone toting human. Worst of all is the way NBC has chosen to broadcast the Olympics these last couple of times. Remember when you could tune into the Olympics and watch a block of skiing and then a block of hockey followed by a block of speed skating? No more. Now everything is sort of smooshed together and NBC is catering to the ADD crowd. Because I see two figure skaters perform followed by 15 minutes of curling or some such shit, and then 2 of those dudes who do the big ski jump and then we're back to figure skating. God, pick one and stick with it.
Anyway, just after I had turned the Olympics on, I decided to go online and check out flight costs again, and in opening the browser window to my Yahoo! Page, I saw the newsheadline "Sasha Cohen takes Silver." Like, THANKS Yahoo!, you just ruined it for me.
So, whatever. I'm doing my stuff and keeping an eye on the skating when Sasha Cohen comes on. Now let me say that I really love Sasha Cohen ad think she's a fantastic skater and all that. So when she fell I was bummed but not surprised and since I knew she was going to take silver, I wasn't too concerned. And I thought after her two falls, she still performed well, and poor girl has a possible groin injury and it was her first Olympics so she didn't do too shabby, right?
But the commentary, people, the COMMENTARY. Whoever that chica is who was with Scott and Dick? Girl needs to be put down. Because as Sasha is skating off the ice after her performance and they're going on about how despite her falls she had a solid strong ending blah blah blah and then Chica says the following, with absolute gravity and sincerity, "You know, the difference is that other girls may skate to Romeo and Juliet, but Sasha is Juliet."
And I said, out loud, to nobody, "OH YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!"
Shut up, Chica.
I haven't watched the Olympics at all this time around because -- and I don't mean to sound callus -- I just don't care. Winter Olympics kind of suck, and the only thing I even am remotely interested in is the figure skating, which I guess makes me a typical double X chromosone toting human. Worst of all is the way NBC has chosen to broadcast the Olympics these last couple of times. Remember when you could tune into the Olympics and watch a block of skiing and then a block of hockey followed by a block of speed skating? No more. Now everything is sort of smooshed together and NBC is catering to the ADD crowd. Because I see two figure skaters perform followed by 15 minutes of curling or some such shit, and then 2 of those dudes who do the big ski jump and then we're back to figure skating. God, pick one and stick with it.
Anyway, just after I had turned the Olympics on, I decided to go online and check out flight costs again, and in opening the browser window to my Yahoo! Page, I saw the newsheadline "Sasha Cohen takes Silver." Like, THANKS Yahoo!, you just ruined it for me.
So, whatever. I'm doing my stuff and keeping an eye on the skating when Sasha Cohen comes on. Now let me say that I really love Sasha Cohen ad think she's a fantastic skater and all that. So when she fell I was bummed but not surprised and since I knew she was going to take silver, I wasn't too concerned. And I thought after her two falls, she still performed well, and poor girl has a possible groin injury and it was her first Olympics so she didn't do too shabby, right?
But the commentary, people, the COMMENTARY. Whoever that chica is who was with Scott and Dick? Girl needs to be put down. Because as Sasha is skating off the ice after her performance and they're going on about how despite her falls she had a solid strong ending blah blah blah and then Chica says the following, with absolute gravity and sincerity, "You know, the difference is that other girls may skate to Romeo and Juliet, but Sasha is Juliet."
And I said, out loud, to nobody, "OH YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!"
Shut up, Chica.
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