Thursday thoughts

I hate spinning class so much. I enjoy knowing that I’m burning a gazillion calories, but I don’t enjoy feeling as though somebody has taken sandpaper to my crotch. Ouch. It’s not unbearable, but it’s definitely just another reason that I have to psych myself up to go at all.

Watching the Olympics has made me realize how much I miss playing a team sport. I think I should try to join a volleyball league. I know that I could ask Christine, but I think I’ll make it a personal project and see what there is around here.

What’s with the stupid China-themed commercials that everybody is doing for the Olympics? I don’t know, but it seems kind of shameless. I feel like it shouldn’t matter where you set your commercial, as long as it’s good and well-done, but these mostly aren’t. It seems as though they feel that as long as it’s set in China, the commercial can be just as stupid as they please. I started this to talk about a Crouching Tiger-themed McDonald’s commercial, but then some other stupid dragon-related hot tub commercial came on and made that one look like a masterpiece by comparison. Did innovative and smart ad people not make it out of the 60s?