The Olympics are over!

I am glad the Olympics are over. Now, don’t get me wrong—I love the obnoxious yelling of “USA! USA! USA!” and spandex-covered (and toned) athletes, but my grades do not. The Olympics are one of the best things to happen every two years, and one of the worst.
With a full waste-time schedule already of YouTube videos, Onion articles and Grey’s Anatomy episodes, adding clips of Shawn White’s winning snowboarding run or montages of crashes during the downhill slalom, I just didn’t have time… to do my homework. I wish that I could say that I was behind in schoolwork for a noble reason—my fish died; The Slant came out this week (a go-to reason for any newspaper editor); I was soooo wasted Saturday night that I couldn’t resume real work until Thursday. Alas, I just watched a lot of Olympics (although that’s certainly not how I spent my Saturday night).
The Olympics are glorious. When on any other Wednesday afternoon if you turn on the television to NBC all you will see is… well, I don’t know. Besides The Office or 30 Rock, I don’t ever watch NBC. Regardless, it’s probably bad. But not during the Olympics. The Olympics are a fantastic two weeks of retired athletes re-living the glory days through un-insightful commentary, current athletes securing their glory days or their publicity deals, and fans dressing in obnoxious colorful versions of their national symbols.
What is better than Sweden’s national bird the Eurasian black bird (besides the bald eagle)? A fan dressed up in a Swedish blue and yellow version of the Eurasian black bird. And what is better than a paper analyzing the effects of corruption in Post-Soviet regions? Anything. You see my point?
Thankfully (although it is bittersweet), the Olympics are over. With no important sports events coming up soon (pshhh, what happens in March?), I can finally focus back on what really matters: More YouTube videos.

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