Merrily on the way...
Less than two weeks now until I'm back in school...
I have a quiet life. Now, as I get fed up with camp kids and have to get stuff taken care of before heading back to school, that's nice. But, as I've said, it's led to some very scant blog entries.
So, rather than concentrating on the exciting happenings - or lack thereof - of my recent experience, I'm going to do one simple thing: I'd like to thank the Game Show Network for re-running all the seasons of 'The Amazing Race.'
Now, hopefully, that's not too pathetic - if becoming addicted to reality television isn't bad enough, doing so in re-runs has to be worse. But one has to admit that 'The Amazing Race' is a really cool show. I think I mentioned back in September that the installment that was new back then was one of the very few things that I managed to watch on television.
But in that installment last year, I got seriously caught up in the show during their visit to St. Petersburg, Russia. (Yes, that's the bit that got me. Who'd have guessed that, huh?) After finding a clue on board the Battleship Aurora (which fired upon the Winter Palace in 1917, counted as the first shot of the Bolshevik revolution), which I have pictures of from a tour of the Neva river, they went to the Hermitage art museum and had to find a challenge at a particular Rembrandt painting. It was just seriously cool for me to see that on television - not only could I have gotten to the museum, I had been right at that particular painting.
Now I've been enjoying watching the second and third races over again on GSN, since I had missed them the first time around. It has to be the greatest reality show concept since the quiz show was invented; everybody gets a free trip or two to some exotic destination - the really good teams get to visit dozens of countries without having to pay for their own airfare - and the best get a million dollars for all the trouble they go to seeing the world.
Who wouldn't want to do that?
Okay, I wouldn't want to do the skydiving detours, but if you get to that point early enough, you don't have to worry about it.
So I think I'll throw my hat in with "Future 'Amazing Race' Contestants" or "Amazing Race Hopefuls of America" or something like that.
I already looked at the applications at CBS.com, and, alas, you have to be 21 to apply, but, then, that gives me 14 more months to find a racing partner.
Yes, it's an odd post. I'll have more to write about in two weeks or so.
I have a quiet life. Now, as I get fed up with camp kids and have to get stuff taken care of before heading back to school, that's nice. But, as I've said, it's led to some very scant blog entries.
So, rather than concentrating on the exciting happenings - or lack thereof - of my recent experience, I'm going to do one simple thing: I'd like to thank the Game Show Network for re-running all the seasons of 'The Amazing Race.'
Now, hopefully, that's not too pathetic - if becoming addicted to reality television isn't bad enough, doing so in re-runs has to be worse. But one has to admit that 'The Amazing Race' is a really cool show. I think I mentioned back in September that the installment that was new back then was one of the very few things that I managed to watch on television.
But in that installment last year, I got seriously caught up in the show during their visit to St. Petersburg, Russia. (Yes, that's the bit that got me. Who'd have guessed that, huh?) After finding a clue on board the Battleship Aurora (which fired upon the Winter Palace in 1917, counted as the first shot of the Bolshevik revolution), which I have pictures of from a tour of the Neva river, they went to the Hermitage art museum and had to find a challenge at a particular Rembrandt painting. It was just seriously cool for me to see that on television - not only could I have gotten to the museum, I had been right at that particular painting.
Now I've been enjoying watching the second and third races over again on GSN, since I had missed them the first time around. It has to be the greatest reality show concept since the quiz show was invented; everybody gets a free trip or two to some exotic destination - the really good teams get to visit dozens of countries without having to pay for their own airfare - and the best get a million dollars for all the trouble they go to seeing the world.
Who wouldn't want to do that?
Okay, I wouldn't want to do the skydiving detours, but if you get to that point early enough, you don't have to worry about it.
So I think I'll throw my hat in with "Future 'Amazing Race' Contestants" or "Amazing Race Hopefuls of America" or something like that.
I already looked at the applications at CBS.com, and, alas, you have to be 21 to apply, but, then, that gives me 14 more months to find a racing partner.
Yes, it's an odd post. I'll have more to write about in two weeks or so.
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