Four more years...
Torino is officially history. I'm going on the record as stating that the Closing Ceremonies were really odd...not sure what the deal was with the successive waves of clowns, and while the several hundred girls in wedding dresses were very striking, I don't know why they were specifically in wedding gowns. But, hey...we did some stuff at Salt Lake that didn't make much sense to anyone else, so I guess it's only fair.
So I lapse back into my post-Olympic coma, on some level--ever since working at the SLC Games, there's a part of me that is even more excited and intrigued by the Games whenever they come around...but I will admit to being much more fond of the Winter Games. I guess it's just because I didn't know that many people who did the kinds of sports they celebrate in the Summer Games (definitely don't know anyone who did rowing like that...or bicycling. I knew a few people who did diving or swimming, knew of some people who were gymnasts...but I've always felt a little further removed from the events, somehow.
So, to borrow their symbolism, the flame has flickered out again...it will flicker to life, at a much lower level, in two and a half years; but it will take four years for it to really come back to life at full intensity. Too bad, in a way, that Annette's plans didn't come together for being in British Columbia...we could all have had a reunion and caught the Olympics at the same time. *grin*
In other news, Edgar's back. Brought him home from Marla's place tonight, he's sitting in a cage right beside my monitor as I type. He was fluttering around Marla's home earlier tonight--I'm going to leave him in his cage for a day or two before I let him start flying around my apartment. Things could get a little exciting, once he does. If he lands in the wrong place, stuff will get broken...but it's nice to not be the only living thing in the place for a change (well, there were the spiders...but they weren't very sociable--not that I left that as much of an option).
Maybe this will become the incentive I've been lacking to keep things tidied up...
Torino is officially history. I'm going on the record as stating that the Closing Ceremonies were really odd...not sure what the deal was with the successive waves of clowns, and while the several hundred girls in wedding dresses were very striking, I don't know why they were specifically in wedding gowns. But, hey...we did some stuff at Salt Lake that didn't make much sense to anyone else, so I guess it's only fair.
So I lapse back into my post-Olympic coma, on some level--ever since working at the SLC Games, there's a part of me that is even more excited and intrigued by the Games whenever they come around...but I will admit to being much more fond of the Winter Games. I guess it's just because I didn't know that many people who did the kinds of sports they celebrate in the Summer Games (definitely don't know anyone who did rowing like that...or bicycling. I knew a few people who did diving or swimming, knew of some people who were gymnasts...but I've always felt a little further removed from the events, somehow.
So, to borrow their symbolism, the flame has flickered out again...it will flicker to life, at a much lower level, in two and a half years; but it will take four years for it to really come back to life at full intensity. Too bad, in a way, that Annette's plans didn't come together for being in British Columbia...we could all have had a reunion and caught the Olympics at the same time. *grin*
In other news, Edgar's back. Brought him home from Marla's place tonight, he's sitting in a cage right beside my monitor as I type. He was fluttering around Marla's home earlier tonight--I'm going to leave him in his cage for a day or two before I let him start flying around my apartment. Things could get a little exciting, once he does. If he lands in the wrong place, stuff will get broken...but it's nice to not be the only living thing in the place for a change (well, there were the spiders...but they weren't very sociable--not that I left that as much of an option).
Maybe this will become the incentive I've been lacking to keep things tidied up...
posted by Curtis at 12:12 AM
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