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[emilyj]

I currently have 3 TiVo's primed and ready to go to record all of the Olympic goodness. Anytime you want to talk Olympics, just let me know. ;D

[marie427]

I love how you paged me like we're still in Nest Land where you never ever know otherwise that you got a PM. Another reason I love Proboards!

We can talk about the Olympics wheneeeeeeever your heart desires. For me, that's all the time.

[emilyj]

Duh - it didn't even occur to me to send you a PM.

I am working on a paper (one of several I'm eventually going to do) and I'm reading the Olympic websites every day from 6 different countries. It is a RIOT. Everyone loves Michael Phelps. Except the Germans. I've discovered they don't love the Olympics at all.

[dev22]

OOOOOOOOOOO I love the olympics!!!! We were able to go and scope out the olympic village when we were in London last month. SO.AWESOME.

[emilyj]

Dev, I am SO jealous. We are going over to Scotland and Ireland in July - right before the Olympics - and I was desperately trying to get us down to London, but it was so fucking expensive I couldn't make it work. I am dying a little inside that I'm going to be that close and not be there.

I did work at the Atlanta Games though, so I have awesome stories - and pictures - from that.

[dev22]

May 18, 2012 14:40:16 GMT -5 emilyj said:

Dev, I am SO jealous. We are going over to Scotland and Ireland in July - right before the Olympics - and I was desperately trying to get us down to London, but it was so fucking expensive I couldn't make it work. I am dying a little inside that I'm going to be that close and not be there.

I did work at the Atlanta Games though, so I have awesome stories - and pictures - from that.

I am jealous that you got to work an Olympic games! That is so awesome.

I saw the triatholon when I was a year old ('84 Olympics in LA had the Triatholon right by my parents house), but I don't think that counts haha

[marie427]

I got to see the outdoor torch in Vancouver a few months after the Olympics. Awesomesauce.

Emily, I want your job. And I'm not terribly shocked to hear that the Germans don't like the Olympics. Munich and Berlin didn't go so well, to put it mildly.

I love to read statistics about how countries have done at the Olympics. It's how I spend my Friday and Saturday nights!

[emilyj]

I tell all my friends to not bother me during the 2 weeks of the Olympics because I'm parked in front of the TV. It really doesn't matter what's on. I'm watching it. My husband understands this because he does the same thing when the World Cup is on.

All the Germans care about is soccer. I'm curious to see how their coverage of the Olympics will change during the games - since in Beijing, they were #6 in the medal count. Will they care more then?

[marie427]

Do they at least prefer the Winter Games? They do very well in some of the winter disciplines.

[emilyj]

I don't know - I just started looking at these websites for the summer games. I'm doing the paper in 2 stages - the pre-Olympic coverage, so everything surrounding trials, etc, and then i'll do the 2 weeks of the games. I'm thinking that once the games actually start, the coverage will change. If they were #6 in the medal count, then they did well in Beijing, and I imagine they'll do well in London too. It'll be interesting to see how it pans out.

[marie427]

I would also like to add that the 2012 Games were the ones that New York was in the running for. I still want to cry when I think about how we lost out. I also wanted to punch everyone who bitched and moaned about all that traffic and all those crowds. You know, because NYC is never crowded.

[emilyj]

Pffft. I am coming home to see my parents in a couple weeks, and we are trying to figure out a night to come into the city to eat. I said something about Friday night and my dad was all "ZOMG! The Friday traffic!"

Yes. All of that non-crowdedness that happens in the city.

[emilyj]

Yes! Absolutely! I am excited we have people here that will talk Olympics!!!