Harder, Stronger, Better, Faster

Monday, August 30, 2004

 

*frowny face* Dangnab... it's only been two days and nearly 60% of my allotted bandwidth for photobucket has already been sucked up. That bandwidth has to last me a month, all y'all. *sigh* looks like i'd better send that $5 to the photobucket place soon before all you see is a "Bandwidth exceeded" picture again >.< SOoooooooooooo... as promised, non-Phelpsie pic update coming up! WEll. Actually. *looks around sheepishly* I found a couple of pics that i liked/had never seen. :) Oh, come on, you know you want it! May have to get up earlier than usual tomorrow just to go to work with my mom so i can go to the bank afterwards. Whomps. I really wanted to get the new People tomorrow. Oh, well. I can get it on Wednesday. i WILL get it on Wednesday... since i'll be home alone and bored out of my mind. Seriously... i wish school started a little bit earlier just so i could get out of this place. Go surfing in San Diego. Hahaha, right. During Orientation we tried to find the beach and ended up on the top of a cliff looking down and saying "Well... who wants to jump it?" Eh, needless to say, we chickened out. So. That was useless info. PIC DUMP TIME!

A Brief Olympics Update
So brief you won't even know it happened!


Steven Lopez is very *tsss* I wish there were more pics of him. There were a couple in the Time with Michael Phelps on the cover, but it was hard to see his face cuz he was showing off his taekwondo moves. Nice face shot in this one. He won the gold medal in his weight division for Taekwondo... in case you didn't know already. It's his second gold, as he got one in Sydney, too. :D


He carried the Chinese flag during the Closing Ceremonies last night. Yes Liu Xiang. OMG. I watched him race that night... he kicked so much ass. hahaha. it was hilarious when practically shoved that judge. I nearly fell over laughing. He's great... hope to see him in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing!

Klete Keller
In case you haven't heard already... or haven't been paying attention... I *HEART* KLETE KELLER! He's my hero... him and Peter Vanderkaay during the now-famous 4x200 Freestyle Relay! CRAZY AMAZING!


L33T Klete with Beauty and the Beast. I love giving them all nicknames. Anyway... this is from one of the international championships, but it didn't tell me which one on the site i got it from *frowns* Oh, well. I freaked out because Klete had hair... and since i'm a newbie, i'd never seen Klete with hair... the funny thing about seeing bald guys when they had hair is that it looks like a wig... i think Hair-Klete carries his hair quite naturally. Michael Rosenbaum aka Lex from "Smallville" on the other hand...


Another shot with just Hoogie and Klete from the same international championship, i believe. I HEARD HOOGIE TALK FOR THE FIRST TIME YESTERDAY. I'm so sad and so behind. Seriously, now. But they have a clip of him at a press conference on the NBC Olympics site. And now whenever i see the colors blue and orange together i scream "OH MY GAW!!! WHERE'S HOOGIE?" Except one time it was Inge de Bruijn... cuz they both swim for the Netherlands, y'know... >.<


The swimming dream team... before they became the 4x200 Freestyle Relay champs at the Olympics. I couldn't believe i found this picture. It's like... fate threw this pic at me screaming "HOLY SHIT ON A STICK, WOMAN! PUT YOUR MONEY ON THESE GUYS CUZ THEY'RE GOING TO WIN IN THE OLYMPICS!" And win they did! Um... 'scuse me, back of lady's head, but you're blocking my view of Klete...

Markus Rogan
Because if there's anything i love more than America it's Markus Rogan! He's so precious. I *heart* him for his sportsmanlike behavior... and because he's such a fricking cutie! *clings to Markus' leg* PLEASE STAY IN THE BAY AREA! PLEEEEEASE! Oh, crap... i'm not going to be here... PLEASE MOVE TO THE SAN DIEGO AREA! PLEEEASE! Besides... i don't see how Aaron Peirsol should get ALL the lovin'...


There. You can see Markus' face a gajibbafillion times more clearly in this pic than you can in the other one. Like i said, i've BEEN there. BEEN to that part of Stanford. I REMEMBER THAT SPOT, THOSE ARCHES. GODS! It drives me crazy to know that...


Rogan and Peirsol after that infamous swim... again... it seems that the media was photo-happy at the time during that race. There's just no shortage of these Rogan/Peirsol pics...


Aw. He doesn't seem happy after the race even though it could mean a gold medal for him if Peirsol's disqualified. Oh, wait... that's right. THEY'RE FRIENDS. Friends don't let other friends lose out on gold medals...


"Gods... i wish Aaron didn't pinch so hard..." Naw... just kidding. *observes* he has very nice teeth... straight and stuff...


With his silver medal after the 100 backstroke. Aw... he has such a cute smile!


With both of his silver medals... i mean, that's not bad. He didn't get the gold due to Aaron Peirsol, and we all know how fast he is. Come to think of it, i'm starting to wonder if Peirsol's going to take Crocker's place by Phelps' bedside... hm... that just sounded rather dirty. haahaha


aaaaaaaaaw... Markus in his Austria swimcap! i lurve his smile. it's so cute. I wish there were more Rogan fans because then it would be a heckuva lot easier to find pics of him. So, all y'all you'd better be reading this stuff and not just scrolling straightaway to the Michael Phelps pics. I'm trying to expand horizons here! ;)

Michael Phelps
Because some people need their fixes.


And that, ladies, is why he wears a swimcap... so things like that mushroom poof don't happen. Of course, his hair is so short at the moment, i doubt that would happen :( *wants to run fingers through crazy hair*


*freaks out* AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! THEY'VE TURNED INTO ONE PERSON!!! JUST LIKE VOLDEMORT AND QUIRREL IN THE FIRST HARRY POTTER BOOK! OH, god! KILL IT! KILL IT! Just kidding. Excuse me while i slightly shudder at Ian Thorpe's after-swim look. Some people look hot for their after-swim look... like Hoogie. Thorpe looks fine dry, but that's not a great quality for a swimmer...


A shirt? PANTS? BASEBALL? *cries* That's not Michael! Well, i sort of tossed this picture in here so as to attract Minar who loves baseball. Hahaha... i wonder if it'll work... well... i'm sure i've already been seen on her Rogan Radar.



Michael with his Wheaties box. Michael ON his Wheaties box! I don't eat Wheaties... i think i tried them once and ended up not liking them. I suppose it's athlete food, and i'm not much of an athlete... Chris told me i should do water polo and i laughed at him because i'm a huge wuss and water polo gets violent. I'll just swim for fun, thanks...


Michael at the closing ceremonies... *clings to Michael's elbows* (Well... i would do shoulders, but i could probably only reach elbows) I don't want this to be the last time i'll ever see you! Don't leave me!


A little something Jonathan made because he's ... a blend whore. Nah, because 1) He's good with photoshop and 2) he NEEDS photoshop or else bad things happen and he just might die... or produce things in Paint. Hahaha it happened once, and trust me it wasn't pretty... But THIS is pretty. That's a big as it gets, so don't try to read the little words under "KEEP IT OFF" because it doesn't actually say anything worth noting. :) I like it... but Jon doesn't so much. Michael, he says, is hard to blend.

Well, hoped you enjoyed this photo dump! See you tomorrow!

Andi 11:51 PM