in sporting news...

... I don't watch Olympics. I love the Games, but as I don't have cable, and antenna works awful here, I am out of NBC coverage. I don't miss it per se, but other options aren't available. In Canada I could always choose between NBC and CBC coverage. (CBC is better). I would have thought that there would be online viewing options, but it's either NBC (that I have to pay for) or not available in USA.

So I mostly just read about it. And commentaries suck. I hate them. Why random sportsfans that crowd all sport-related places are so entitled? Why do they feel that the athletes owe them gold medals, and if they don't deliver, they are so loser or unpatriotic or stuff - and this I can see in any country I read about (meaning: USA, Canada, Russia). I should stop reading anything but bare news...

I did manage a bit of watching today, just to show D. a bit of Olympic fun. We saw a tiny pieces of gymnastics (beam - women and vault - men) and he asked me to jump like this. When I refused, he went and tried a routine of his own on our mattress.

then we saw a clip of synchronized swimming, and he laughed the whole time. then a bit of men's diving, and he was waiting for men to start dancing in the water, too. :)

But he is swimming pretty well for his age now, though he is far from having a proper technique(I am even farther, as I am not even trying rotary breathing.) We also finally bought him a proper bike, instead of a tricycle, and he is learning to ride it. But why are kids' bikes are so heavy? Mine is way lighter.

I am having a sporting event of my own, if you consider writing essays a sport. I do.

Here is my essay about Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass

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I am bad at writing formal essays, and here is my attempt to learn...