The World Of Jadeey

I'm working on a cycling book for class. Editing and typesetting it has meant I have read it probably about 30 times. I now know an awful lot about cycling. It's making the Olympics even more exciting - the cycling is really holding my attention. It's cool that we're actually doing so well.

Today, for the book, my group was working on designing an index. This involves reading the entire text (again!) and pulling out words that you think people would be interested in looking up. There is no way to do it automatically - it has to be done manually. It's pretty boring. But it's also the last step of our book and that's bloody exciting.

Okay. The mens cycling madison is about to start so I'm going to pay attention to the tv now.

Labels: cycling, Olympics, school

Yes, yes I know that calling it Super Saturday is a headline some journalist somewhere came up with. But I don't care, it's a good name. I'm loving that we have so many medal chances in one day. And I'm loving even more that it's on a night I can actually be at home.

So far I've watched Mahe Drysdale be amazing. He's been sick all week and straight after he faded a bit to only get bronze (I say only, but it was freaking amazing) he collapsed on the dock. He would have been sure to get the gold if he hadn't been sick. To even get 3rd when he was so sick is bloody amazing.

After that I saw George Bridgewater and Nathan Twaddle get bronze as well. Good on them.

Then the Evers-Swindell twins got gold! Woo!!!! It was an amazing race to watch. It came down to a photo finish and even on the replay I couldn't tell if we'd won it or not. But we had and it was great.

There are still a couple more rowing events, our shot-putter and our cyclist to go tonight. Hopefully there'll be another gold or two for us tonight.

Go New Zealand. Yay!!!!

Labels: Olympics

I think I'm probably the only one of my friends that actually likes Helen Clark. But I really do. I think she's extremely intelligent and a very good leader. I like her as Prime Minister and, in my opinion, she's done a really good job.

I saw this photo of her recently in a book by Sally Tag. The book was full of photographs of New Zealanders. It's called On Top Down Under. If you ever get a chance to find a copy then I'd recommend taking a look. It's awesome. Anyway, here is the photo of our Prime Minister. On first look I thought it must have been taken when she in her early 20s, but it was actually in 1997. I think a lot of people will find this photo surprising.




Aaron said I should have blogged about Scott Dixon yesterday. Since I enjoy fulfilling people's blog requests I thought I'd attempt to make up for my oversight of not blogging about him yesterday by doing it today instead.

Scott Dixon won yesterday. That makes it his 6th IndyCar win of the season! He is now tied for the record of the most wins of an IndyCar season. It was a close one - he caught the leader on the final corner. Impressive for the Kiwi boy.

With our Olympians being so uninspiring right now, it's nice to see at least one Kiwi doing great things on the sporting scene. (Ok that's a little harsh. Our Olympians have plenty of time. I'm just bitter that we haven't won a single medal yet. I'm very competitive.)

Labels: Helen Clark, Olympics, Scott Dixon

I love Friday nights. It's nice knowing I have the entire weekend before me - even if I will have to spend most of it doing assignments.

The Olympics start tonight. I always intend to watch plenty of events, and usually only end up watching a couple. The equestrian is on in the morning, I'm planning on watching that. The only thing I hate about equestrian is when the horses fall over. I don't give a damn about the riders, it's the horses I feel sad for. I've been known to cry over a horse falling down at the Olympics.

Heh, I'm such a girl!

Labels: Olympics