Why too much TV is bad February 22, 2006 ~ 10:34 am
Posted by Julie in : Random Insanity , trackback
Under the stairs ~Upper West Side, NYC
I’ve spent a fair amount of time sitting in front of the TV since the Torino games started. Admit it, you all did, too. The Olympics are on, dammit! We can’t miss any Olympic action or we are bad Americans! (The Bush administration has been trying to tell me that I’m a bad America for years now, so why I’ll accept that designation from NBC and not the White House remains a mystery, but still.)
So in an attempt to be a good American and absorb the total overload of sports streaming into my house via satellite, I found myself unreasonably attracted to Snowboard Cross. It was fast. It was fun. It looked like a video game. Hell, it looked like I could do it. Wait a minute…I could do that! Nevermind that I have never been on skis or snowboard in my life (I like to blow Rick’s kids’ minds by telling them we were too poor for skiing where I grew up, just to remind them how the other half lives). Snowboard cross wasn’t like the half-pipe, where you have to contort your body and defy gravity. Instead, it was like going down a hill with turns. Anyone could do that! Maybe not at high speeds like the Olympians, but I bet if I could grasp snowboarding, I could do snowboard cross.
One conversation with Lori later, I had convinced her that she, too, could learn how to snowboard cross with me. I am very persuasive when I want to be. So now we have a goal for next winter. We are going to learn to snowboard, come hell or high water. Ayyyyyyiiiiii!
On Saturday I found myself knitting, waiting for the Olympic coverage to start for the day with the Travel Channel on in the background as I was too lazy to find the remote to change the channel. (Everything can be blamed on the Olympics, even watching the Travel Channel.) Without realizing it, I started watching a show about the Mall of America. Five minutes into it, my mother called.
Julie: Mom, we should go to the Mall of America! It has an aquarium! And an amusement park! And stores!
Mom: Okay.
See? I am muy persuasivo. That was record time for anyone giving into me, by the way. And we are now planning an April excursion to the Mall of America. How American is that, to devote an entire vacation to a shopping mecca? With sharks!
And now you see why I obviously need a new camera. How can I not document fledgling snowboard cross attempts and a trip to the MoA? Damned Olympics.
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