Side effects of watching the Winter Olympics

• Not doing much reading
  
• Staying up way too late
• Missing Buffy
  
• Increased knowledge of obscure winter sports
• Tension during tight races and skates
  
• Avoiding any news on the internet or radio til I've seen the event myself
• But now I have good current events knowledge...
  
• Cursing NBC's coverage; I mean show us at least a little bit of each event in prime time. Like curling e.g., the favorites (Canada) get beaten and I want to see it!
• The commercials that were cute a week ago becoming insufferable now
  

And best of all....

• Lots of time to complete some knitting and crochet projects