Yay, Hil! May it be interesting AND fun for you!
I'm now at work, waiting for coworker to show up. She thought about ten of now, so any minute and I can get to work!
In the meantime, I'm catching up here. I did get out to the
Super
Stop & Shop (you really have to emphasize how big it is) which while it was busier than usual for a Saturday morning, wasn't crazed... yet. I got all my favorite blizzardy foods, plus enough cat food that if we get snowed in for two weeks, the cats will continue to be fed in the manner they've been accustomed to.
Do we have an olympic spoiler policy?
Don't spoil anything that hasn't aired in the US yet.
Heh. When the 1992 Summer Olympics were in Barcelona, one of the US swimmers, Joe Hudepohl, was from Cincinnati. I was still in college, and that summer I had an internship at a Catholic magazine run by Franciscan friars.
The individual sports competitions were only aired during prime time, and on the weekends, even though, given the time change from Barcelona to here, they were taking place around mid-morning or so, IIRC. I remember the 6:00 news was always really careful to not spoil the medal count, or if they were going to talk about the Olympics, they said, really emphatically, that they were ABOUT TO TALK ABOUT THE MEDAL WINNERS, SO LEAVE THE ROOM IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW.
One of the Franciscan friars who worked at the magazine where I interned was one of Joe Hudepohl's uncles. When the US men's swim team won gold, one of the family members must have called right away, because Bro. Hudepohl came running through the office, yelling at the top of his lungs, "Joey won the gold! Joey won the gold!" Apparently spoiler policies don't apply to Franciscan friars whose nephews just won gold.
Does anyone have a link to ita's wet men site? Googling just gives me hard core porn.
Alright, so any franciscan friars with contenders in the family on the board? No? Good.
I'm watching the opening ceremonies from last night. They're showing pagentry stuff. Miraculously, Bob Costas is not yapping about the symbolism.
Oh dear, spoke too soon, Bob just explained hearts to us. But it really
is
relatively restraine dfor him.
Oooh, thanks Jesse. I'm dreamcasting Tim's new show. I find ita's site to be very helpful.
I can't believe I tapped out before the most of the ceremony. I was just so pooped. And, as always happens when I go to bed early, I woke up at 5. But I did go back to nap at 9 and have been in sweats ever since. Once TAL ends, I'm getting showered and dressed and braving the DEATHSNOW2006! and doing my grocery shopping. It's barely snickling right now.
Announcing the country names in Italian then English then French is funny because first you get "pronounce every letter and sometimes add a few" then "sounds normal to me" then "chop off the last few letters"
Strand, the big second-hand bookseller in NY, just sold a Shakespeare second folio for $100K. [link]
