Saw The Bourne Supremacy last night — good movie but the shaky camera shots made me feel nauseous. I’ll have to rent The Bourne Identity to get more of the backstory.

I am so sad to hear about Craig Kilborn leaving The Late, Late Show. There’s something about the deadpan delivery of his jokes that totally makes me laugh. And the way he announces himself before walking out on stage… and 5 questions! You will be missed, Kilby!

Yay the Olympics have started! 🙂 (I’m going to apologize in advance for the Olympics talk that’s sure to monopolize my blog this next week). I just love the Olympics, especially the summer games — it’s the one time where I become a complete couch potato for 2 weeks and watch pretty much nothing else. I eat up all the coverage. I’ll watch anything and everything — dressage, cycling, race walking, etc. EVERY. THING. Which I guess is weird since the only 2 sports I regularly follow are figure skating and artistic gymnastics. Hee.

I recorded the Opening Ceremonies (Friday was Rob’s birthday so we were out at dinner) and I really enjoyed it. The human sculpture breaking up to form the Greek Islands, the parade of Greek statues, and the run to pay homage to past host cities — all very cool. My only gripe has to be that Katie Couric and Bob Costas are the worst commentators. They had very little to say that actually added value to what I was seeing on screen AND they mispronounced countries and athletes’ names. UGH. On a completely materialistic note — I absolutely loved the purses that the Greek women were carrying during the Parade of Nations. I think I need one.

Some comments for the first day:
First off, I can’t stand NBC’s coverage of the games. It’s all haphazard and crazy — half of an event here, the rest of the event about 2 hours later… grrr.

Yay for Michael Phelps! I’m glad he’s got his first gold medal. He rocked that 400m IM.

Yay for Ian Thorpe! He was so emotional when he won — he must have felt so much pressure to win considering he didn’t technically qualify for the event.

As for men’s gymnastics team prelims… I don’t really know how to feel about the US men’s showing because NBC barely showed any of their routines! It’s times like these when I wish I had an HDTV. I want comprehensive coverage! Anyway, as far as I can tell, the Hamm twins were amazing (as usual). I’m happy that Paul qualified for the All-Around *and* 4 event finals. He’s so awesome. But I’m so disappointed that NBC basically ignored Paul and Morgan and focused their attention on Blaine Wilson (the “rebel” who’s won like 50 US national championships but has never medaled at the Olympics). And I can’t believe the huge deal the commentators made about Blaine’s skill on the high bar “all of a sudden” being undervalued and he had to change his routine. WHAT.EVER. The FIG can’t just change the value of a skill all willy-nilly. They inform the coaches and the athletes ahead of time when the code of points change. I was so annoyed when he was being interviewed and he made it sound as if there was some kind of conspiracy against him. *deep breath* No love to you, Blaine Wilson.

Random note… love the laurel wreath that they’re giving out to the medal winners. I want to make one for myself. HAH!