Paul Oberjuerge: Ten Signs You've Been at the Olympics Too Long
We are beginning the third week now. Most journalists get to an Olympics on Monday or Tuesday before it starts. This all began, officially, a week ago Friday. Roughly a month ago.
Some hints you've been in Five Ringville too long, and are ready to go home:
1. You've learned how to swear in the local language.
2. You know all the ice-dancers on sight.
3. You're now using the bidet in your dorm room.
4. Snowboarders describe their rides, and you actually understand what they're talking about.
5. You laugh at people who don't know an axel from a salchow.
6. That black coat you've been wearing every day for two weeks? You're going to have it covered with sequins.
7. You have no idea who's still alive in American Idol and Survivor.
8. That local dish made out of pig's brains and eggplant? Really kind of tasty when you've had it a time or three.
9. A big chunk of your morning is given over to deciding which articles of your dirty laundry are still wearable. Kind of.
10. In a phone call home, you accidentally call your spouse "Yevgeny."
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