Testimonial: I Geek Olympics

I have been over­dos­ing on Olympic cov­er­age this week and stay­ing up well past my bed­time. The Delaware County Dis­trict Library’s new cam­paign, “I geek ____ (what­ever),” keeps run­ning through my head because I am so geeked up about the Olympics.

It’s funny because I’m really not much of a sports fan but the sto­ries about these ath­letes and what they go through and where they come from and how much they achieve or attempt to achieve — it’s enthralling. I am com­pletely sucked in. Just tune in any night to NBC and you will find, not just the com­pe­ti­tion, but plenty of human drama — the inspir­ing kind, not the Jerry Springer kind.

Although I only catch the games on tele­vi­sion each evening, I could truly geek the Olympics if I fol­lowed them on Twit­ter, Face­book, live online or on any one of a myr­iad of smart phone appli­ca­tions. I did some dig­ging around and found some of the more pop­u­lar apps peo­ple are using are from NBC, the BBC, the offi­cial Lon­don 2012 and Team USA. I draw the line there. Not enough time in the day.

Sup­pos­edly these Olympic Games are the most sus­tain­able ever and the Lon­don Orga­niz­ing Com­mit­tee has done a great job with green build­ing, uti­liz­ing pub­lic trans­porta­tion, trans­form­ing the East End of Lon­don with a huge park and much more from what I could research online. Whether it is as green as they wanted it to be is debat­able, but pulling off an event of this enor­mity uti­liz­ing any eco-conscious meth­ods is bet­ter than none.

Only a few days left, then I can get more sleep. If you haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, tune in and take part in the spirit of the games. After all, it only comes around once every four years. As the Visa com­mer­cial says, Go world!

Tues­day Trip­pier lives in Delaware, is a writer and mother of four with a spe­cial inter­est in green living.

Posted by Tuesday Trippier on Aug 7 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Comments can be made below.