Today I celebrated our country's Presidency (well except we in the AB household do not celebrate either Bushes, Reagan, Nixon--actually it is just easier to say we are celebrating the day off) by eating macaroni and cheese and watching the Olympics.
And I am just done done done with the American media coverage of the Olympics. Now I am a sentimental fool I know. But for me the pleasure in the games is in the weird sports. In watching curling and moguls and screaming HOLY SHIT during the snowboard cross. I cheer for the Americans of course, but I especially love the sports that we are not really even in. I must confess to crying a little bit during the men's biatholon. As some one who is not an athlete I am stunned by all the things people are able to do. And our media just sneers at anything but gold medals. They make fun of sports they don't like. They complain about the lack of diversity without thinking about how the WORLD IS HERE THAT IS PRETTY FUCKING DIVERSE but if you just want to see black athletes they are here too. They bitch about how poorly the Americans are doing even though they are doing amazingly well.
But I am not missing it.
Especially when I have the day off.
It shouldn't shock me that we as a country get it wrong. It is like so many things. We focus so much on the result we miss out on the amazing pieces that make it up.
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I love watching the curling when I get off of work. Those Johnson sisters are pretty cute.
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