I'm glad swimming's over, maybe they'll stop talking about Phelps now.

I like track and field, nearly every country has someone who can run.

We're transitioning from Swimming and Gymnastics to Track and Field.

I'm sure that there is some other big sport in the 2nd week - but right now I cannot think what it is.

They'll probably do more with the basketball and beach volleyball. There's also the individual apparatus competitions in gymnastics, and some more diving.

I'm sure that there is some other big sport in the 2nd week - but right now I cannot think what it is.

Basketball, at least as far as the TV schedule goes.

I'd be happy to not see any more beach volleyball. It gets really very much the same after a while.

Oh, hey, the US men's sabre team is in the gold medal match. Total surprise! (And tomorrow's another weekend day of getting up way too early...)

Isn't basketball almost done?

Diving. . . could be diving.

The individual apparatus gymnastics stuff are done on Monday, no?

K and I were talking about how it seems to me that individual sports get a ton more interest and play than team sports. That might have to do with the amount of time team sports takes (the fact that it is a tournament style elimination) and the fact that a handful of team sports (basketball and baseball in the summer and hockey in the winter) have professional leagues in the US that get a significant amount of television time so those sports seem less pressing to watch.

Oh Nilly, since it's morning here, and I suspect it's the same time in Petah Tikva as well, I wish it all went well and you got everything you had to do. I really do.

Also, Extremely Cute pictures!

Now, for some mearaing, from last to first.

JZ, thanks for those happy other birthday wishes. I'm sure they effected the coolness of my birthday.

Second,

Animals that begin with "n"? Help.

Natters, of course.

And now, bringing you mearaing from the previous Natter, ladies and Gentleman! (I have a Gmail draft for B.org things. From COMM to stuff I wanted to reply on but never got the time. Am not crazy, am I?):

Remember the

The quite-young niece dropped a cell phone into the toilet.

In the army, with those hideous pocketless uniform, we (the non-combat girls) did have some sort of back pocket, which ideally will fit for one folded paper or two. Some girls used to stuck their cell phones into those pockets (depending how lean they were, of course - the cell phones, not the girls).

Now, the design of the uniform made sure that almost every time you have used the bathroom and forgot to take your cell from out of your pocket it fell into the toilet. As a result, usually within 6 months from the time of her recruitment, the regular soldier girl knows how to handle wet cell phones.

Never say the army doesn't prepare for dealing with a lot of unforeseeable scenarios.

Doesn't boxing wrap up in the second week?

since it's morning here, and I suspect it's the same time in Petah Tikva as well

Psst, it's Ramat-Gan, but, yup, still morning. The universe didn't grant Kat her time-machine.

I'm doing the last writing-thing before the printing-burning-arranging-files stuff. It's in Hebrew, yet I still find it difficult to phrase myself. Sigh.

The photo-copying store I need to go to in order to create 4 copies of this hideous thing opens on 8:30am (um, that's in half an hour), and th PhD committee on 9L00am. Let's see how this goes.

I hear that there is boxing at the Olympics and yet, I've managed to completely avoid it. (I know it's been on CNBC and Telemundo.)