Another year, another Stars on Ice. I'm growing to love this tradition. Keep it up, eh guys?!

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Okay umm, Patrick Chan's long program was one of the best things I have ever seen. People always talk about the energy in the building being electrified and I felt it. He skated clean and with huge jumps. We were on our feet a good 30 seconds before the end. You couldn't even hear the music. Afterward, everyone was just sitting there, almost ( Read more... )

Woooo, today. More skating. My hands hurt so much right now from being cold all day combined with excessive clapping. I got to the arena just as the mens practice was ending. Patrick Chan skated back out to the center to take a bow. Then, the ladies free skate was on. 18 competitors. Gaaaah. I don't even remember most of them. Jessica kinda bombed ( Read more... )

So, figure skating live = lots of waiting. Wait for the warm-up to finish, wait for the scores, wait for zambonis, wait for food. I'm pretty good at waiting but those seats are hella uncomfortable! Still! Amazing, amazing, amazing ( Read more... )

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I haven't been this enamored with a show since my marathon viewing of The West Wing last year. Leverage is perfect. Parker, with her squeaky duck costume and backflips and her feelings for pretzels. Eliot! He'll kick your ass and then sing to you. And Hardison, he's so dope! Nate and Sophie and their heartachingly beautiful not-quite-romance.

( Guh. )

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I've been watching figure skating since I was wee. I can't tell you the difference between a salchow and a lutz and would probably be called ~not a fan~ because I really only watch it once every four years but I do enjoy the sport ( Read more... )

Meet Scott and Tessa. "Hi, Scott and Tessa!" Scott and Tessa are Canadian ice dancers (I know, I know ice dancing?) who won North America's first gold medal in the sport at the Vancouver Olympics and then went on take the World title a month later.

( All of a sudden one day I woke up and ice dance and Tessa and I, that was my whole life )

I NEED TO KEYBOARD SMASH AND SCREAM IN CAPS ABOUT BONES AND THE INTERNET IS BROKEN!! WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME?????

AHHHHHHHHH.

I'M STILL CRYING AND THE EPISODE WAS OVER FIVE MINUTES AGO.

/crazy

Um, so. That really happened.