all olympics all the time
happy cheap chocolate eve, o my flist. imagine me walking by your desk and putting a little valentine and a candy of your choice in the decorated shoebox.
are there folks who didn't do that when they were in elementary school - decorated a shoebox with wrapping paper and little paper doilies and hearts and put it on their desk so everyone else in the class could put a valentine in it? if everyone has to buy everyone a valentine they don't end up meaning that much, but at the same time no one has to feel left out. altho honestly my favorite part of valentine's day was always the chocolate. :D
today i worked from home and left the house for a whopping thirty seconds so i could get the mail, so there wasn't any chocolate. it was also VERY COLD. and yesterday it snowed! it stuck to cars and grass and trees and bushes but not the street, which is my favorite kind of snow. i did not have curling because two people on my team were out and couldn't find subs. hmph. and saturday which was weirdly warm i volunteered for like three hours at the curling club because there was a bonspiel. usually i volunteer in the kitchen but this time i was in the warm room, which is where the tables and the bar are and where people sit to watch the action on the ice. i mostly cleared tables after people finished their lunch. the tv was tuned to a canadian channel which i know because all the commercials were in french. heh.
i've been doing a certain amount of nothing (my bang is a whopping 1600 words which might be a problem) and watching a lot of olympics. so far there's been a lot of skiing (men's alpine altho i don't remember which event, women's downhill, women's slopestyle, women's aerial), some bobsled (two-man and women's monobob, which i always want to read as monoboob, and which included elana meyers taylor's silver making her the oldest american woman to win a medal), a rerun of erin jackson's gold-medal race (making her the first american to win a gold in 500m speed skating since 1994, and i think the first african american to win an individual gold ever - she didn't even qualify for the olympics originally, and one of her teammates gave erin her spot in the 500m), and some curling! italy vs switzerland, which italy really won. also a lot of ice dancing. (i really liked the spanish skaters. they skated to music from zorro.) and possibly something else? i don't remember. it wouldn't have been a lot of it, whatever it was. oh, there's a bobsled pair from brazil. they didn't do that well but still, brazil! at the winter olympics!
the freestyle skiing for the record is very fun to watch but vaguely terrifying.
i'm watching women's downhill right now and a lot of the skiers have what looks like athletic tape on their faces, like the kind of tape gymnasts sometimes wear. does anyone know why? protection from windburn? anti-glare?
the gold medalist in men's cross country waited for the last skier to cross the finish line. now that's sportsmanship.
are there folks who didn't do that when they were in elementary school - decorated a shoebox with wrapping paper and little paper doilies and hearts and put it on their desk so everyone else in the class could put a valentine in it? if everyone has to buy everyone a valentine they don't end up meaning that much, but at the same time no one has to feel left out. altho honestly my favorite part of valentine's day was always the chocolate. :D
today i worked from home and left the house for a whopping thirty seconds so i could get the mail, so there wasn't any chocolate. it was also VERY COLD. and yesterday it snowed! it stuck to cars and grass and trees and bushes but not the street, which is my favorite kind of snow. i did not have curling because two people on my team were out and couldn't find subs. hmph. and saturday which was weirdly warm i volunteered for like three hours at the curling club because there was a bonspiel. usually i volunteer in the kitchen but this time i was in the warm room, which is where the tables and the bar are and where people sit to watch the action on the ice. i mostly cleared tables after people finished their lunch. the tv was tuned to a canadian channel which i know because all the commercials were in french. heh.
i've been doing a certain amount of nothing (my bang is a whopping 1600 words which might be a problem) and watching a lot of olympics. so far there's been a lot of skiing (men's alpine altho i don't remember which event, women's downhill, women's slopestyle, women's aerial), some bobsled (two-man and women's monobob, which i always want to read as monoboob, and which included elana meyers taylor's silver making her the oldest american woman to win a medal), a rerun of erin jackson's gold-medal race (making her the first american to win a gold in 500m speed skating since 1994, and i think the first african american to win an individual gold ever - she didn't even qualify for the olympics originally, and one of her teammates gave erin her spot in the 500m), and some curling! italy vs switzerland, which italy really won. also a lot of ice dancing. (i really liked the spanish skaters. they skated to music from zorro.) and possibly something else? i don't remember. it wouldn't have been a lot of it, whatever it was. oh, there's a bobsled pair from brazil. they didn't do that well but still, brazil! at the winter olympics!
the freestyle skiing for the record is very fun to watch but vaguely terrifying.
i'm watching women's downhill right now and a lot of the skiers have what looks like athletic tape on their faces, like the kind of tape gymnasts sometimes wear. does anyone know why? protection from windburn? anti-glare?
the gold medalist in men's cross country waited for the last skier to cross the finish line. now that's sportsmanship.