I don’t enjoy watching the Olympics. The coverage we get (exclusively from the CBC), is shoddy. There’s no pre-planned time schedule for matches or events, so I never know what’s going to be on when I have time to watch. There was also absolutely no coverage of table tennis, which has already ended, most of the medals going to China. Why is this? I suspect because Canada basically had no chance of placing in the top three, so why would the CBC want to show them? Well, more likely not even in the top five. Even Google gave table tennis props with one of their daily banners, and with 28 Olympic sports but only 16 days, 12 of those sports aren’t going to have banners.

There are also so many politics involved, with disqualifications, doping, judging, etc., that everything just seems tainted. There’s also all the frustrating media coverage in the mix, such as Perdita Felicien’s hurdle dissapointment splattered on the front page of most papers while Ann Muenzer’s golden achievement gets a sports section blurb. And with sports that don’t need to be in the Olympics (why have synchronized diving AND diving AND synchronized swimming?), there’s not much to keep my interest.

It reminded me of home, when I would walk back from Ashley’s house on the shining pavement.

I got 14 hours of sleep today, and I still feel a little drowsy. My exhaustion must be catching up to me.

I figured out that I have four mid-terms and three assignments due next week. I really should be working harder. I got today off both work and school, since it’s a school holiday, and I made up my work hours on Tuesday. I was only able to finish one assignment today, since I generally just felt lackadaisical.

It’s amazing to find out what people blame for their misfortunes. The latest sniper killings have the Washington Post going on about how the deaths are computer game related, the connection between “I am god” to “god mode” in games. I wish people would understand that anything can cause someone to murder, and that it’s not popular culture that simply leads someone to take a life, it’s most likely a mental heatlh issue that develops without relation to a game. Popular culture may provide an idea for a method of murder, but the idea that a game can spark someones willingness to kill seems completely ridiculous to me.