The Olympics are exhausting

You know, right?  Sitting on the couch for such a long time can really wipe a person out!

And the late hours?  C'mon!  This is actually the first time I've seen the Olympics in the Eastern time zone, so all this staying up until midnight to see the torch lit thing is seriously tiring.

And then there's the dehydration caused by the crying, since I'm a TOTAL SAP and find myself tearing up at the joyful faces of athletes, or at all those horrible heart-tugging profiles of athletes.  And then there are the youtube links I stumble upon.

Like, this.  I do not remember that at all, but it totally made me cry.  Or this isn't sad, or anything, but, wow was Greg Louganis stunning.  I admit, I had a bit of a crush on him in the 80s.  Of course, now he's connected in my mind to my least favorite high school teacher (an English teacher who actually almost made me hate reading; his was the only class I ever dreaded attending).  After Louganis hit his head in Seoul in 1988, and thus we were all talking about it before class started, the teacher ended the discussion by telling us all in a sort of snide voice "You all know he's gay, don't you?"  At the time it made my little high school girl crush fade a little bit, because I hadn't yet realized that since I'm never going to meet anyone famous anyway, their sexuality doesn't actually matter when it comes to crushes.  In retrospect, I just think, man, that guy was an ass.  Not for talking about homosexuality, of course, just for how he did it--it wasn't meant to spark an open discussion, it was just meant as a way for a self-identified cosmopolitan hipster to shock us poor sheltered bourgeois kids.  Anyway.

In my recent youtubing, I've also discovered this, which is AWESOME ON MANY LEVELS.  As is the other Patrick Stewart Sesame Street bit that comes up next (though that one actually requires knowledge of Star Trek to make it funny).

And I posted a couple more videos of Ziti.

First, this kind of comes before the one I did a while back of me getting home.  He's been getting noisier and noisier even before I come in the door, so... well, here.  The volume's fairly low at the start, since you're hearing him meowing through the door.

And then there's this one, of him just being cute, and using his inside voice, for once.

(Incidentally, I think I'm futzing so much with youtube in large part because Russia is freaking me right the hell out.  But more on that later, if necessary.)

Comments

[Dawn]

Okay, every time you show videos of your cat I am sure I say the same thing.
I want your cat...He is sooo sweet!~

[Eva]

LOL to what Dawn said :)

He's just telling you about his day and that he's been lonely and wants some adult conversation and Woman what are you waiting for to pet me???

Cheers Eva

[rbb]

Since this is presumably your first time watching the Olympics on CBC instead of NBC, I'm interested in your thoughts on the difference in coverage styles between the two networks. I've been watching portions of both, and the "jingoism gap" that has always bothered me has narrowed -- NBC has lessened its level (yay) while CBC has raised its (boo). The big difference has been CBC's willingness to provide live coverage of events that are held at night in Beijing -- as I type this I'm about to watch the 100m finals live on CBC whereas NBC is going to tape-delay it.