Comments | jenelope: Burnt out a bit

jenelope

Burnt out a bit

Aug 20, 2008 11:17

So, I've been watching the Olympics every single stinking day. And as a result, I haven't gotten to bed before midnight in nearly two weeks. (Except for last Wednesday- after driving 250 miles to my parents' house, and in anticipation of a 3:00 AM alarm, we all opted to save any recordings for the next day.) Last night, I was up until 12:30 AM. It' ( Read more... )

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dachelle August 20 2008, 15:34:29 UTC

I told my mom last night that I'm Olympic'd out. The balance beam finals were it for me, I think. I can't stay up anymore!

jenelope August 21 2008, 19:39:36 UTC

I told my mom I was taking out the trash and going straight to bed. But I watched a little open water swimming, a little diving, a little gymnastics gala, a little track. I managed to get to bed by 10:30, but I still didn't sleep until nearly 1:00 AM. Crazy! (I have to blame the late night on a particularly interesting section of the book I'm reading, though.)

kcobweb August 20 2008, 16:28:36 UTC

The kite-fighting piece was the first I'd seen that didn't make me want to leap through my TV set and strangle Mary Carillo with my bare hands. All the other ones could be summarized as "those weird Chinese! aren't they weird? and sometimes icky! Let's make fun of them!" *shudder*

jenelope August 21 2008, 19:41:17 UTC

Oh, see, I love Mary Carillo! I find her direct, professional and to have a great sense of humor. Her panda piece coined my absolute favorite sentence of the entire Games: "Nothing cutens up a country like a panda bear."

escap1974 August 20 2008, 18:15:50 UTC

I haven't really watched any of the olympics in real time. Mostly because I'm in CST right now, so I'm exhausted around 9:30-10:00. Heh.

jenelope August 21 2008, 19:43:24 UTC

Bitca. If I lived in CST, I could do no end of things, because it's the TV schedule that makes me so tired. I'd probably even be more fit, because I'd go to sleep earlier, wake up earlier and be alert enough to get to the gym.

jrs1980 August 20 2008, 19:17:17 UTC

I went walking with a coworker a few times a week before I went on vacation, and now she's on me to pick it up again.

My response? "I can't get in shape until the Olympics are over."

jenelope August 21 2008, 19:44:27 UTC

That about sums it up. I have no energy and have barely been able to wake up at my usual time, let alone early enough to work out in the morning. Stupid sexy Games.

blixie August 20 2008, 20:27:43 UTC

Oh dude, I was behind the eightball right from the start, last Monday I was at a game and just got the Jason Lezak ass kicking of France leg of the relay live. I think I burned the midnight oil trying to see stuff live for like 3 days and gave up, so good on you for even trying to keep up. It's all been day later on dvr catching up, of course this is the most soothing way for me to watch sports anyway.

Um, speaking of I don't supposed the Bengals/Lions game was on tv, or if it was that you DVR'd it, I had to troll you tube for Drew highlights and OH what a highlight it was, his fake out run for touch down thingie? WIN! So he's playing against 3 stringers just like him, I refuse to let that harsh my Drew cheerleading.

jenelope August 21 2008, 19:47:01 UTC

It's not even just trying to keep up with the NBC stuff. You know how my new Uverse receiver has four DVRs? I had stuff recorded on MSNBC, CNBC and USA. After the first day, I watched most of it on fast forward. And after the third day, I just started deleting anything that didn't have a sport I was truly interested in. Never, ever doing that again. Until 2010, when there will be luge and curling.