Olympics Are Bad For My Homework

[disalarming]

I have a mile-long list of things I need to do but I’m way too busy watching the Olympics to do any of it. Somehow, I suspect saying “I was watching history in the making!!” to my professors won’t excuse my incomplete assignments and lack of studying.

The funny thing is that I don’t even like watching sports in general. I have zero interest in the Super Bowl or the World Series or anything else. But there’s something about the Olympics that I positively love. Call it the Olympic spirit, call it admiration for the athletes’ drive and determination for an event that rolls around only once every four years, call it me needing to find a reason to procrastinate from schoolwork. Whatever it is, I love the Olympics and this week has been like heaven for me.

The Opening Ceremony is always my favorite part of any Olympic games because I love watching the show the host nation puts on for the world. Vancouver’s Opening Ceremony was decent; there were a lot of things I was puzzled by (like the kid flying in the fake wheat field) but I enjoyed most of it. The Parade of Nations is the part I like most about any Opening Ceremony. I love seeing all the nations come together and hearing the commentators point out interesting trivia about different teams/nations and their athletes. Also, sometimes nations have eclectic outfits – the pants of the Azerbaijani team, anyone?

Currently the Vancouver Games are about halfway through and already I can pick out some of my favorite moments of the Games. I’m really hoping that by the time the Games are over I’ll have a very long list of highlights and a (very) short list of lows that I’ll have compiled. Y’know, to show that I’m doing something productive as I watch the Olympics and ignore my steadily increasing pile of homework. Depending on how tonight’s male figure skating turns out (aka if Plushenko takes gold), that list of lows might have a new addition…

Cross-posted from breakthesky.net. Please leave any comments there.