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...someone had a birthday today and when I came upstairs there was a piece of soft, cheesecake-y goodness waiting for me. YUM.
I've been downloading a ton of figure skating YouTube videos onto my iPod lately. All sorts of skaters--mostly ladies' singles, but a few pairs' and ice dancers' programs. I even found Tonya Harding's long program from '91 Nationals where she got 6.0s because of her triple axel (only the second woman in the world ever to complete a triple axel in competition). Man, she depresses me--what a waste of a damn good athlete. Do y'all know how hard a triple axel is? Even NOW, only a few women have ever been able to do them--more women attempt quads than triple axels, they're more difficult for women because of the upper body strength needed to get the extra half-revolution. I want to have sympathy for Tonya because I know she had a crappy upbringing but she is her own worst enemy, and her "me against the world" bravado is very offputting.
One person I did not download was Nancy Kerrigan--her skating puts me to sleep. (That spiral named after her, where she grabs her extended leg and reaches forward with her other arm? BO-RING. Much prefer Sasha Cohen's vagina-hinge fan spirals.) I was Team Oksana all the way in '94! I loved her long program, and her competitive fierceness in adding another triple into her program as she was still skating, to make up the difference in difficulty between her LP and Kerrigan's. LOVE that kind of fierceness!
I've been downloading a ton of figure skating YouTube videos onto my iPod lately. All sorts of skaters--mostly ladies' singles, but a few pairs' and ice dancers' programs. I even found Tonya Harding's long program from '91 Nationals where she got 6.0s because of her triple axel (only the second woman in the world ever to complete a triple axel in competition). Man, she depresses me--what a waste of a damn good athlete. Do y'all know how hard a triple axel is? Even NOW, only a few women have ever been able to do them--more women attempt quads than triple axels, they're more difficult for women because of the upper body strength needed to get the extra half-revolution. I want to have sympathy for Tonya because I know she had a crappy upbringing but she is her own worst enemy, and her "me against the world" bravado is very offputting.
One person I did not download was Nancy Kerrigan--her skating puts me to sleep. (That spiral named after her, where she grabs her extended leg and reaches forward with her other arm? BO-RING. Much prefer Sasha Cohen's vagina-hinge fan spirals.) I was Team Oksana all the way in '94! I loved her long program, and her competitive fierceness in adding another triple into her program as she was still skating, to make up the difference in difficulty between her LP and Kerrigan's. LOVE that kind of fierceness!
