Today’s stories: Russians say they may leave Games and When progress makes perfect. (Not so sure about that second headline. Harrumph.)

Tonight I get to see the Osmond Brothers live. Envy me.

Wednesday night, like a big idiot, I didn’t realize I had a chance to see my heroes, the Dismemberment Plan.

I might be able to catch the US-Russia hockey game this afternoon, which would be great. Might. The Osmonds might interfere. Seriously.

One of my personal Olympic highlights: watching the crowd at the US-Germany game sing along to everybody’s favorite Village People classic, YMCA. It’s always fun to (a) watch the foreign visitors who don’t get the hand motions, and (b) watch the roughly 10% of the audience who don’t realize you only do the hand motions twice in a row in the chorus and keep doing it for the entire song.

22 February 2002

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22 February | 16:52 | Jennifer

Might watch the game? You're choosing the Osmonds instead? I know americans learn some Spanish and not French, so let me just say "Pienso que usted est� loco." (I think that's right)

22 February | 23:39 | josh

Hey, I get paid to go to Osmond concerts. I don't get paid to go to hockey games.

(I never thought I'd write those sentences.)

But I made both anyway. Go USA! Osmonds rock!

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