Vancouver Olympics 2010 (February 12 to 28):So I wasn't going to blog on the olympics at first; I found it hard to imagine being able to fit my love for olympics in one post without boring anyone with play by play summaries of every event (minus curling, because well...it's curling). So at 1am on a Thursday night/Friday morning, I'm still not sure how this is going to work, but here goes...
My Olympics Addiction (newly revised with commentary), "You know you love/miss the olympics when":
1. You watch the entire opening ceremony/parade of the nations from start to finish without tivo (i might have fast forwarded the "-stans" of the middle east-kazhakstan, turkmenistan, pakistan etc).
2. You hum the olympic theme song during your every waking hour (including choreographed hand motions) *I'm pretty sure my physics class can attest to this.
3. Due to your vicarious olympic experiences, you have a dream that you are actually an olympic athlete (when you wake up, you still believe it)-I had a strange dream that I was an olympic skiier in an even that combined downhill, slalom, and artistically falling of ski lifts
4. You cry/want to cry tears of joy when the medals are given (mainly only for the people you're rooting for)- something about the "triumph" factor always gets me. When I see other people finally achieve something that they've worked their entire lives for, day in and day out, I get a little teary. I am also the same person that teared up during the 08-09 nba Lakers Championship Ceremony. (but I don't cry in movies)
5. By rooting for your culturally identified team (Korea), you somehow become alienated (cue existentialism theme song) and are chastised by exceptionally patriotic Americans. Haha, not trying to start controversy here but, DAE HAN MIN GOOK!
6. You memorized all of top olympic athletes' names (even random skiiers from the Netherlands)
7. Your olympic-watching regularly consists of jumping up and down in front of the tv to get athletes to perform better/faster/stronger- you don't look weird because the rest of the family is right there with you. (applies to all short-track events).
8. You memorize the sucky commercials that NBC tortures you with for all 16 days of the olympics- you also reenact these often.
9. You forget how bad you really are at ice skating/skiing/hockey/etc- goes well with #3
10. More than two weeks later, you're still experiencing "withdrawals" and searching for something that will adequately fill the hole that the olympics have left in your heart- hence the pointless blogging (I really just needed to document my obsession).
Can't wait for summer 2012...
p.s. kim yuna was kind of a big deal this year.
p.p.s. as much as i try to be an understanding/nonjudgmental person, i hate ohno (maybe if i knew him as a person...). I have also been informed that there is ohno toilet paper in Korea. Glorious. also, he won zero golds this olympics.
Alright, that's it for now. If I remember anything, it will definitely be added to the list.
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