Watching the Olympics

[silverthorne]

It's like a family get-together where all the cousins show up as well. You may not want to go, but you feel like you're going back on your familial obligations if you don't.

I...really have no interest in watching it. I have a very mild interest in watching the opening ceremony, but only mild. The sports themselves I have no burning urge to watch and spend time on that I would rather spend elsewhere. Sure, I'll like to know who gets what, but...I dunno. I know there will be incredible stories, heart-rending accomplishments, the whole thing.

But I just can't bring myself to care.

And darn it all if I'm not getting the same guilty feeling I'd get if I were trying to find a way out of the family gathering...

Comments

[kizery.livejournal.com]

I have a hard time caring about the Olympics, myself. Sucks that you feel obligated to watch it!

Cute icon, btw :)

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

I think the feeling obligated thing is a holdover from when I was close enough to my grandmother's house to go sit there and watch it with the rest of the family (which is more fun than sitting in the apartment by myself to watch it). In other words, old social programming with no current use, since I'm in Texas, and my family is all back in Tucson, Arizona.

Thanks. :) That's a picture of Foot, three days after I took her in from the street and before she was wholly comfortable living with me. She'd crawled under there to sleep, and I don't think she realized her rear was still out in the open, so I grabbed my camera and took the pic before she pulled her legs out of sight. :)

[rebl1969.livejournal.com]

We're watching the opening ceremonies because John is a nut about China. I'd really like to have one of those light-up drums with glow-in-the-dark drumsticks my own self.
That said, I can't think of any event I'm particularly excited about to see. Sophie might like the gymnastics, and swimming is pretty cool.