I don’t like to watch sports, I like to play them, with one exception, the Olympics. I like both summer and winter, but winter is definitely my favorite. I think it takes me back to a time when I was a little girl and I loved the figure skaters. They were so beautiful in their sparkly, flamboyantly gay costumes, leaping through the air and gliding over the ice. And the couples skaters, especially ones that were dating or husband and wife! My little romantic heart would soar watching them. The glamor has faded a little bit as I get older, but part of me still loves watching them.
I am also getting into the other winter sports, including the crazy trick skiiing. The way they zoom down the mountains. Wow!
So with all the cool sports to watch, can I just bitch for a minute about the horrible coverage that NBC is doing? Why are they airing everything at odd hours, and then when prime time hits I see fluff pieces about polar bears instead of the actual sports? Don’t get me wrong, I love me some polar bears, but come on. At least their website has almost everything posted to re-watch. But is it so much to ask that when we tune into the olympics it’s not 50 minutes of some guy blabbering about what went wrong during the opening ceremony. WHO CARES?! Oh, and PS all this Olympics watching really makes me motivated to find some sort of fat burner program that works. I guess if my job was to train non stop I’d be looking pretty fantastic too.
One more thing about the Olympics-those damn commercials. They are such tear jerkers. I know I’m a sap, but who didn’t get a little teary eyed watching this one? It still gets me, sniff.

I’m so sad that this show was canceled. ABC-way to fail. The network has crap reality tv and cancels some of the more brilliant shows that have aired. Eli Stone, for those who aren’t familiar, was a show about a lawyer who had two brain aneurysms, which caused visions as a side effect. These visions were of the future, and Eli used them to help change things for the better.

In the series finale, Eli has a vision of a plane crash, with one of his coworkers on board. The problem is he doesn’t know which coworker or what flight it is. He finally figures out that it’s Maggie, but as he races to the terminal, one of his aneurysms bursts, hospitalizing him. Luckily Maggie gets off the plane, because she just had a bad feeling, and ends up sitting by his side when he wakes up in the hospital.
While he was unconscious he has a vision of his father on top of the Himalayan Mountains.

The case he works on in the finale is about a heart donation and has to do with an old love interest that is said to be his soul mate. She was only in one episode, and it’s painfully obvious that Maggie is his soul mate, not the heart transplant girl. Luckily during his conversation with his dad, Eli sets that straight.

The series ends with Eli putting a picture of Maggie on his desk along with his other loved ones. It alludes to a future with her, but it doesn’t fully embrace it. We don’t really know what happens next for Eli and Maggie. I would have liked to see more closure between the two of them.I wish the writers of this show had taken a page from Scrubs, and hired some long distance movers to move them over to another network. I know I would have followed! Of course ABC was the one who bought Scrubs, making the smart choice then. Perhaps NBC would have done the same with Eli? I guess American television just isn’t ready for something as positive and uplifting as Eli Stone was.

Michael has done the unthinkable, he quit Dunder Mifflin after 15 years of dedicated (albeit sometimes crazy) service. During his last two weeks, he decides to completely goof off. He drinks scotch at his desk, he wanders around the office aimlessly and he gets no work done. He acts as if being unemployed will be full of hanging out on pool floats, sipping margaritas and having a great time. His fellow coworkers try helping him out, and encourage him to go look for work.
He then gets one of his classic crazy ideas and decides he’s going to start his own paper company. He tries getting everyone to join him, but no one does, not even Dwight. Finally, the new VP of Scranton, Charles, finds a letterhead that Michael has changed from Dunder Mifflin to say Michael Scott Paper Co. (which he made with scotch tape because he couldn’t figure out how to do it on the computer) and has Michael kicked off the premises.
Michael sneaks his way back into the office, and tries again to get someone to go with him. In a rare act of spontaneity, Pam gets up and runs after Michael. She tells him in the parking lot that she is tired of being a receptionist and instead wants to be a saleswoman, while Jim stands next to her in complete shock.

I have to commend the writers for really throwing a curveball to the audience on this Michael story. I think even though Michael has made mistakes in the past, he’s a good worker, and he was dedicated to Dunder Mifflin. He deserved better, so in a way I can see why he quit. Still, the show is nothing without Michael. I’m guessing something is going to happen with the new boss Charles and they’re going to be begging for Michael to come back.