SUMMER OLYMPICS!!

It's here! It's here! My absolute favorite time of every four years! The best years of my life are always when the summer Olympics are on!

Life has been IN-SANE. I am so exhausted and fatigued sometimes I just want to collapse. This is the first time I've felt like I've gotten to just sit down in over two weeks... even though I am still doing stuff from the chair. But I am so excited and content and entertained to sit here and watch the Opening Ceremonies for the Olympics and get excited for the next 2 weeks ahead with the Games.

I love the Opening Ceremonies - you see all the cultures, all the flags, all the athletes, and I love watching the map that shows you where the countries are at, and all the crazy facts and stories that you get from the commentators, even if they are such cheesy people. I always get The Feels and The Chills watching the Olympics. I love it, and I love the worldwide collaboration.

I've started this tradition with myself of watching the Opening Ceremony and tracking all the countries. It started with the 2008 Beijing Olympics. I had just gone to Germany a few weeks prior and got really sick, so I could do nothing but stay in bed, so I ended up watching the Opening Ceremonies and just writing down each country in the order they came in. I have no idea why, I really have no explanation, but I loved it. I can't believe that was 8 years ago now!! Anyways I repeated it with the 2012 Olympics. I was working at Columbia University at the time and always kept a screen open on the side of my computer, and I remember tracking the teams again.

Also of note, I have a vivid memory from the Beijing Opening Ceremony of a performance with a person using their arms and legs to create giant calligraphy. It was beautiful, but somehow the biggest thing that stuck with me. For London, it was JK Rowling reading Peter Pan, which was appropriate since that was my Year of Harry Potter. For this one, I think it was the favela dancing. Who knows, we'll see what sticks.

ANYWAYSSSSSSS just wanted to say that I'm still alive. My new job has me so busy I don't have a free moment to click outside of my email, and then I've been working on all the unpacking and moving and cleaning stuff, but I have to say I'm very happy about it because with the whole political climate and everything else, I am just sooooo overrrrrrr anyone's opinions or commentary, so I've been happier just staying off of it. Ha.

Someone please tell these athletes to put their damn phones down! YOU'RE THERE. YOU'RE ON TV. EVERYONE IS WATCHING. IT'S DOCUMENTED. YOU'LL FIND ALL THE FOOTAGE FOREVER. PUT YOUR PHONE DOWN AND ENJOY THE MOMENT AND LIVE IT!!!