Showing posts with label Olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olympics. Show all posts

August 25, 2008

Dancing with Ennui

So the Olympics are over and hopefully we're all recovering from the resulting sleep deprivation. I was also hopeful that once the Closing Ceremony came to an end and the time I'd "given" myself to take a mini-break from posting was done, I'd have something worthwhile to say.

But I feel as if we've gone from one epic event, the XXIX Olympiad, to another, the Democratic Convention. This isn't going to keep us up nights (unless you're a Hilary delegate wresting with what to do), but if you're a Democrat, which I am, it's a fairly important time. Yet I so don't have a desire to talk much about that; I'm not into talking politics and either preaching to the choir or trying to change someone's mind.

For days, I've been casting about for something else to ponder here. I keep sending myself links to things or stories that I find during the day, but by the time I get home and look at them again, they don't seem terribly interesting. I guess I'm tired and nothing seems all that interesting.

The only thing that has grabbed my attention longer than five minutes is this:

Are you overcome with curiosity and an insatiable need to go out and buy one? Yeah, it looks to a degree like a chocolate representation of a human colon, but it's really a very clever piece of engineering. It's an "all edge" brownie pan. Yep, every piece is an edge for your dessert pleasure, 'cause no one wants the all-gooey, unbaked part in the middle that no one can get out in one piece, right? I was impressed because I do love a good brownie and immediately put it on my wish list on Amazon; that took up those five minutes very nicely.

But then I was right back where I started: Dancing with Ennui and trying to decide which of us is leading. The bitch of it is, I keep stepping on Ennui's toes, sort of purposely-by-accident, and it really doesn't seem to care all that much.

August 18, 2008

Blog or sleep?

So I just listened to Bob Costas "sympathize" with America over the sleep we're losing by trying to keep up with the Olympics. That happened at about 11:45pm. But did they then give us those 15 minutes? Let the news start and let us go to bed just that little bit early?

No. Of course not. They're not going to lose viewers for their billion dollar venture, are they?

I am not NBC. I have mercy, people. So this is a short post. Go. Go back to bed or take a nap or something. Rest your Olympic-weary eyes. If you insist on staying online, go take my poll if you haven't already. Thanks to those of you who have. Go already! (But, you know, come back soon, okay? Like in six days when this madness is over.)