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Monday, July 30, 2012
Jul. 30th, 2012 11:52 pmA few Olympic links:
1. Appreciation of US Men’s Gymnastics’ Team
2. Olympic tattoo gallery
Today I mainly watched the primetime broadcast with diving, swimming and gymnastics. I did catch the women’s diving from yesterday, a tiny bit of archery and the end of gymnastics online. I spoil myself with the results beforehand but that doesn’t take away from anything for me. Poor Ukrainian team – I watched those gymnastic results live and that was terrible. And poor American boys, they made all those mistakes and they were crying and I just wanted to hug them. China sticks everything tonight – they earned that medal.
A few more catch-ups from July:
It’s been a month for dentists for everyone in my favorite. I don’t like the dentist, I get a lot of anxiety. But my tooth has been bothering me in June so I was very brave and I went to make an appointment. I had to get a filling and a cleaning and I’m just glad to get it over with. I’m not sure if that solved the problem though, there is still an uncomfortable feeling but I hope I can wait until I get Bear’s health insurance with has dental before I go again.
My Mom, on the other hand, had a lot of trouble and pain and has to do a bit of surgery soon. That makes her extra cranky and she is not easy in the best of times. Hopefully, the surgery will help, though.
In more fond July memories, On July 7th Bear and I went to Roger Waters’ “The Wall” concert at Yankee Stadium. I got Bear tickets for his birthday. I never been to Yankee Stadium before, which really added to the excitement. We even stopped by the Yankee Museum there in the stadium. I’m not a big baseball fan but the Yankees are my home team and it is great to see all that tradition. The Concert itself was a lot of fun (except for people who kept chain smoking in front of us). I liked all the special effects and, of course, I know the album so well.
That day was the really busy day for us, as Bear took a train to Brooklyn so we could go start looking for apartments. We had three appointments that day and it was the day with 100F weather – really, really hot. We had to take a subway a few times. And then we had about four hours to kill so we decided to take the subway to the Met and hang around the museum for a bit. I love the Met because you could just pay a $1 to get in to the best museum in the world. And while there we saw the “Byzantium and Islam” exhibition which was in its last days. I’m very happy I got to see it too – it covered 6th to 9th centuries or so and it was just wonderful and detailed. I wish this exhibition lasted until December because then I could get my students for Global History do their extra credit there.
1. Appreciation of US Men’s Gymnastics’ Team
2. Olympic tattoo gallery
Today I mainly watched the primetime broadcast with diving, swimming and gymnastics. I did catch the women’s diving from yesterday, a tiny bit of archery and the end of gymnastics online. I spoil myself with the results beforehand but that doesn’t take away from anything for me. Poor Ukrainian team – I watched those gymnastic results live and that was terrible. And poor American boys, they made all those mistakes and they were crying and I just wanted to hug them. China sticks everything tonight – they earned that medal.
A few more catch-ups from July:
It’s been a month for dentists for everyone in my favorite. I don’t like the dentist, I get a lot of anxiety. But my tooth has been bothering me in June so I was very brave and I went to make an appointment. I had to get a filling and a cleaning and I’m just glad to get it over with. I’m not sure if that solved the problem though, there is still an uncomfortable feeling but I hope I can wait until I get Bear’s health insurance with has dental before I go again.
My Mom, on the other hand, had a lot of trouble and pain and has to do a bit of surgery soon. That makes her extra cranky and she is not easy in the best of times. Hopefully, the surgery will help, though.
In more fond July memories, On July 7th Bear and I went to Roger Waters’ “The Wall” concert at Yankee Stadium. I got Bear tickets for his birthday. I never been to Yankee Stadium before, which really added to the excitement. We even stopped by the Yankee Museum there in the stadium. I’m not a big baseball fan but the Yankees are my home team and it is great to see all that tradition. The Concert itself was a lot of fun (except for people who kept chain smoking in front of us). I liked all the special effects and, of course, I know the album so well.
That day was the really busy day for us, as Bear took a train to Brooklyn so we could go start looking for apartments. We had three appointments that day and it was the day with 100F weather – really, really hot. We had to take a subway a few times. And then we had about four hours to kill so we decided to take the subway to the Met and hang around the museum for a bit. I love the Met because you could just pay a $1 to get in to the best museum in the world. And while there we saw the “Byzantium and Islam” exhibition which was in its last days. I’m very happy I got to see it too – it covered 6th to 9th centuries or so and it was just wonderful and detailed. I wish this exhibition lasted until December because then I could get my students for Global History do their extra credit there.