took like a week to get into the olympics but i did it
i swear something happened today that was worth sharing but i have no idea what it was. i'm watching the olympics right now - men's halfpipe - and shaun white just fell on his last run. :( he's thirty-five and it's his fifth olympics and one of his competitors was ten months old for the first. that's amazing. i really wanted him to get a medal, tho. but i also got to see one of the japanese snowboarders break the world record for height. 24'4", which, what. gravity who?
i've also seen some skiing (downhill, slalom, super-g) including mikaela shiffrin wiping out in her second event :( and some big air (i'm pretty sure that's what it's called - ski jump with tricks) which is very tense to watch and of course men's figure skating. hands up for nathan chen, because holy shit. almost everyone fell during the long program and he... didn't. also SO MANY JUMPS. SO MANY. (also i really liked the georgian skater's program, and the russian skated to very dramatic music which i enjoyed.) also chloe kim is the cutest and lindsey jacobellis got a snowboarding gold at thirty-six. which is also amazing. i love that she and shaun white are on the same team as kids who started snowboarding because of them. i mean, they've been competing longer than some of their competitors have been alive.
i have not however seen any curling. oh wait, i did see part of one of the qualifying games in the mixed doubles, which i still think is such a weird way to curl. usually a team is four people, not two.
anyway. in non-olympics news, uh, let's see. on tuesday i had to go to a seminar because one of my pi's runs the series, and the speaker looked weirdly like ben whishaw, if ben was an indian computer scientist. same body shape, same face shape, same floofy black hair, just... not anglo. the talk was kind of about remote work (there was more to it than that but basically, remote work) and problems thereof, and i just kept thinking "you needed to talk to fangirls about socializing and working together online, because they might feel entirely differently about it than the people you surveyed for this research".
otherwise work is work. i had to put up flyers for another seminar next week, but it got me off my ass and gave me the opportunity to walk around and say hi to other admins. yesterday i worked from home which meant that i could take a very long walk during lunch (i had to get soap) because it was GORGEOUS out.
finished claws (which involved me promising my roommate "they're not dead, it's not that kind of show" and was ott and completely wild right up to the end) and have caught up on resident alien (so weird! so adorable! all the ladies kick so much ass!) and am waiting for the return of killing eve altho i still don't think they needed s2 and s3 - well, maybe s2 wasn't totally unnecessary - so why is there even going to be s4. but sandra oh and jodie comer have such great insane chemistry that i'm excited to watch them for an hour every week.
i watched passing last weekend, with ruth negga and tessa thompson, and i didn't love it. it looked fabulous and i thought both actresses were really good, but it was kind of choppy and the passage of time was stupidly vague and some of it felt a little too subtle. and ruth negga looks really weird with blonde hair.
an eight-year-old in idaho wrote and illustrated a graphic novel and surreptitiously shelved it at his local library. now there's a waiting list to check it out.
so many maps. SO MANY.
college student buys random box of photos from a guy selling shit on the street. thirty years later she finds who they belonged to. well, she found a descendant of some of the people in the photos, anyway, as some of those folks died in the holocaust. but now she knows whose photos she bought when she was nineteen, and the guy she found now has more pics of his family.
have some oral history about the casting of mad max: fury road. george miller really liked heath ledger for max, and apparently gal gadot gave an amazing reading for furiosa. i think she would've been horribly miscast, tho, and not just because i can't picture anyone else in that role besides charlize theron. (they also looked at jessica chastain who i think could've done it.) it's just the furiosa has this rage inside her - she has all this banked anger, she's, well, she's furious - and i just don't buy gal gadot as that kind of person.
olympics update: mikaela shiffrin successfully finished her third event altho she didn't medal, and now i'm watching the women's hockey semifinals. us vs czech republic. so far it's tied 0-0.
i've also seen some skiing (downhill, slalom, super-g) including mikaela shiffrin wiping out in her second event :( and some big air (i'm pretty sure that's what it's called - ski jump with tricks) which is very tense to watch and of course men's figure skating. hands up for nathan chen, because holy shit. almost everyone fell during the long program and he... didn't. also SO MANY JUMPS. SO MANY. (also i really liked the georgian skater's program, and the russian skated to very dramatic music which i enjoyed.) also chloe kim is the cutest and lindsey jacobellis got a snowboarding gold at thirty-six. which is also amazing. i love that she and shaun white are on the same team as kids who started snowboarding because of them. i mean, they've been competing longer than some of their competitors have been alive.
i have not however seen any curling. oh wait, i did see part of one of the qualifying games in the mixed doubles, which i still think is such a weird way to curl. usually a team is four people, not two.
anyway. in non-olympics news, uh, let's see. on tuesday i had to go to a seminar because one of my pi's runs the series, and the speaker looked weirdly like ben whishaw, if ben was an indian computer scientist. same body shape, same face shape, same floofy black hair, just... not anglo. the talk was kind of about remote work (there was more to it than that but basically, remote work) and problems thereof, and i just kept thinking "you needed to talk to fangirls about socializing and working together online, because they might feel entirely differently about it than the people you surveyed for this research".
otherwise work is work. i had to put up flyers for another seminar next week, but it got me off my ass and gave me the opportunity to walk around and say hi to other admins. yesterday i worked from home which meant that i could take a very long walk during lunch (i had to get soap) because it was GORGEOUS out.
finished claws (which involved me promising my roommate "they're not dead, it's not that kind of show" and was ott and completely wild right up to the end) and have caught up on resident alien (so weird! so adorable! all the ladies kick so much ass!) and am waiting for the return of killing eve altho i still don't think they needed s2 and s3 - well, maybe s2 wasn't totally unnecessary - so why is there even going to be s4. but sandra oh and jodie comer have such great insane chemistry that i'm excited to watch them for an hour every week.
i watched passing last weekend, with ruth negga and tessa thompson, and i didn't love it. it looked fabulous and i thought both actresses were really good, but it was kind of choppy and the passage of time was stupidly vague and some of it felt a little too subtle. and ruth negga looks really weird with blonde hair.
an eight-year-old in idaho wrote and illustrated a graphic novel and surreptitiously shelved it at his local library. now there's a waiting list to check it out.
so many maps. SO MANY.
college student buys random box of photos from a guy selling shit on the street. thirty years later she finds who they belonged to. well, she found a descendant of some of the people in the photos, anyway, as some of those folks died in the holocaust. but now she knows whose photos she bought when she was nineteen, and the guy she found now has more pics of his family.
have some oral history about the casting of mad max: fury road. george miller really liked heath ledger for max, and apparently gal gadot gave an amazing reading for furiosa. i think she would've been horribly miscast, tho, and not just because i can't picture anyone else in that role besides charlize theron. (they also looked at jessica chastain who i think could've done it.) it's just the furiosa has this rage inside her - she has all this banked anger, she's, well, she's furious - and i just don't buy gal gadot as that kind of person.
olympics update: mikaela shiffrin successfully finished her third event altho she didn't medal, and now i'm watching the women's hockey semifinals. us vs czech republic. so far it's tied 0-0.