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British athletes selected for this year's Olympic Games in Beijing will be asked to sign a contract that forbids them from criticizing China's human rights record.

Graham Nathan, spokesman for the British Olympics Association (BOA), told CNN that "British athletes will have to sign a contract promising not to comment on any politically sensitive issues."

MMM...perfect day outside mid to high sixties -we walked to breakfast - visited some friends, went and spent a lot of money on bike helmets, went for a wandering bike ride through the neighborhood... it looks like we have a week of this...I love the false spring we seem to get out here in February...We had it back in CT, but it is way better out here.

Hec's book in the wild (or, at my friends' bookstore in my neighborhood):

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I hate the wind. It makes me want to do nothing more than stay in bed.

jangley

Kat, that must be going around. I skipped out on church today because sitting still was NOT going to happen. As it turned out that allowed me to get gifties for mac (comic books: The Batman & Legion of Super Hereos and t-shirts: Transformers and Batman) which he managed not notice in the bag. YAY!

I am not sure how tomorrow is Monday. I don't like that plan.

Today has been lovely here too, weather-wise.

I shouldn't have spoilt any of it by going to the open house, and seeing what people dare offer at about a mil in my neighbourhood. Doesn't need a second floor, doesn't need more than one full bathroom...doesn't need all that much, really.

Still, teaching went well, and time spent with Kat and Noah is a predictable delight.

I skipped church today, too, but more out of wanted to hibernate than jangleyness. I'm getting stuff done, though. It feels nice. I'm glad I made this choice, despite mild nigglings of guilt.

I am not sure how tomorrow is Monday. I don't like that plan.

I'm totally not ready for the work week. And yet, I don't really want a snow day because there's too much to get done. I prefer to just not think about it. Apparently libkitties are ostriches today.

OH! Grammy red carpet on tv guide channel.

Slash smoking on the red carpet.

Nas in a t-shirt with N** you know the rest and he is making a political statement about it because it stands for "ignorant people" or somesuch and the system/government is dupping some many people. huh.

Lisa Rina is a hot mess.

I went to school with a handful of low-to-mid-level famous people: in high school, Sam Rockwell and Aisha Tyler; in college, Noah Baumbach. And a whole bunch of "It's that guy!"s -- the girl who played Stockard Channing and Donald Sutherland's daughter in Six Degrees, a friend who had walk-ons in Ned and Stacey and other early 90s sitcoms, Nic Brendon's ex-wife, and a metric assload of very talented people who deserve more than their meager one or two IMDB listings.

My most ridiculously talented classmate (seriously, one sentence into her first audition for the first student shows her first semester at our high school, people were gasping; the way the MSCL people describe seeing Claire Danes for the first time? Just like that) seems to have vanished into thin air. I don't know if she changed her name because it was so generic, or if she gave up acting (but why? SO HEARTBREAKINGLY GOOD, plus striking-looking, thin and photogenic, and with a singing voice so achingly lovely it brought tears to your eyes), or if something awful happened to her.

Re savings vs. credit: bah. I have the worst of both worlds, no savings and massive debt. All this "stop setting aside that 3-6 months' salary, wipe out your debt instead, and invest the rest" is crazy melty land talk to me.

eta: re ita's picture: Totally adorable baby, and I don't know how I never noticed before that ita has completely perfect lips. Unless I was distracted by basically everything else about ita. But that mouth? Perfect.