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A young man visiting his family today in Portland, Oregon expressed shock over how quickly he became annoyed by his mother.
The young man in question, web alias Hati, had only been home two hours when his mother attempted to make a comment on an interesting visual effect she noticed in an Olympic human interest story.
"They were showing some WWII footage, right, and my mom's all telling me how she liked that odd tracing effect when they showed the stuff in slow motion" explained Hati. "She was saying how she thought it showed the surrealness of the moment, which totally annoyed me. It's just what happens when you slow film down in post-production!" Hati exclamied. The young man was, of course, being unfair in getting annoyed, but "there was no helping it!"
Shortly after the annoyance occured, Hati called the Guiness Book of World Records to declare he was now the man most quickly fully annoyed by his mother. Much to his dissapointment, he was informed by the operator that the record time was in fact a mere three minutes. A record set in October 1954 by a Mr. Jullian P. Haffenreffer of Sandusky, Ohio.
Hati seemd philosphical about the incident. "Yeah, I was annoyed, but I guess I can be glad I don't have Haffenreffer's parents. Three minutes. That's crazy."
Hati has since hugged his mother and attempted to put the whole thing behind him.
(AP) Reuters-
A young man visiting his family today in Portland, Oregon expressed shock over how quickly he became annoyed by his mother.
The young man in question, web alias Hati, had only been home two hours when his mother attempted to make a comment on an interesting visual effect she noticed in an Olympic human interest story.
"They were showing some WWII footage, right, and my mom's all telling me how she liked that odd tracing effect when they showed the stuff in slow motion" explained Hati. "She was saying how she thought it showed the surrealness of the moment, which totally annoyed me. It's just what happens when you slow film down in post-production!" Hati exclamied. The young man was, of course, being unfair in getting annoyed, but "there was no helping it!"
Shortly after the annoyance occured, Hati called the Guiness Book of World Records to declare he was now the man most quickly fully annoyed by his mother. Much to his dissapointment, he was informed by the operator that the record time was in fact a mere three minutes. A record set in October 1954 by a Mr. Jullian P. Haffenreffer of Sandusky, Ohio.
Hati seemd philosphical about the incident. "Yeah, I was annoyed, but I guess I can be glad I don't have Haffenreffer's parents. Three minutes. That's crazy."
Hati has since hugged his mother and attempted to put the whole thing behind him.
Tomorrow the U.S. Eights will race in the final. One of the women in the girls eight was a very close friend of mine in high school. Back then, thre were only a few people on our tiny little club team that had just been started a few years earlier. Now she's the bow seat of the Olympic eight. And they're ranked first.
But it's still anyone's race as long as they've got the Romanians to contend with. Not to mention the other four nations who are all going to be pulling their asses of to try and get a medal.
Please, God, let them have a good race. Please.
And it's my birthday on Monday. The sweetest gift will be the end of this camp. The lamest thing is I have to start putting some of my stuff in storage.
It's not good to write entires early in the morning because they usually come out pretty bland.
But it's still anyone's race as long as they've got the Romanians to contend with. Not to mention the other four nations who are all going to be pulling their asses of to try and get a medal.
Please, God, let them have a good race. Please.
And it's my birthday on Monday. The sweetest gift will be the end of this camp. The lamest thing is I have to start putting some of my stuff in storage.
It's not good to write entires early in the morning because they usually come out pretty bland.
This is insane.
Today, the Men's and Women's US Eights, (that's rowing) set the new world's fastest times in their qualifying heats today at the Olympics.
This is particularly insane to me because one of the members of the women's eight was a girl that I rowed with in high school. We were great friends and hung out all the time. She was always predicted to do big things, and now here she is. It's so bizarre to think back when you were just kids and had no idea what the future was going to bring.
Another factor in the insane-a-thon is that one of the guys in the men's eight is a Mr. John Watling. Before my senior year of college, my friend Austen and I rowed for the New York Athletic Club. One of the guys rowing with us was this dude trying to get back into rowing after having taken three years off. He told us he was good in college, but when he started rowing with us, he sucked. I mean, straight up was not good. Then he started talking about how he was going ot try and get back in shape enough to get on the U.S. Squad. Ha! Right! Austen and I had plenty of teammates trying to do the same thing, but they had taken no years off and were in a lot better shape than this guy. Well, this guy was John Watling, and he proved us so wrong it's almost funny.
What's especially humorous is that at the end of that summer of training, the three of us rowed in a four with with one other guy. We set a record for the most medals won at Canadian Henley, and at that time, Austen and I were the two best guys in the boat. That, I assure you, is very long ago now. I can't even row for twenty minutes without tearing up my baby soft hands. John, on the other hand, is out there racing at the Olympics in the U.S.'s premire boat going faster than anyone has ever gone before.
I'm crossing my fingers they can keep it up. Last Olympics, the eight was favored to win after having won the past three World Championships. They ended up totally choking and several men felt like they had wasted a good portion of their lives. It was very sad.
Maybe this is the time when they do it. A lot of other guys came out of retirement for this thing, which, as I said before, is not an easy thing to do. I cannot even imagine living through one day of the pain that used to make up my existence for nealy seven years. No fucking way.
I feel bad for two guys that I rowed with in college who are in the men's quadruple sculls event (sculling is two oars, sweeping is one. Sculling has the single, the double, and the quad. Sweeping has the pair, the four, and the eight.) I'm proud of those guys for making the boat, but the quad is usually the U.S.'s weakest event and it looks like those guys will be eliminated early.
But, here's to Athens!
God, I love the Olympics.
Today, the Men's and Women's US Eights, (that's rowing) set the new world's fastest times in their qualifying heats today at the Olympics.
This is particularly insane to me because one of the members of the women's eight was a girl that I rowed with in high school. We were great friends and hung out all the time. She was always predicted to do big things, and now here she is. It's so bizarre to think back when you were just kids and had no idea what the future was going to bring.
Another factor in the insane-a-thon is that one of the guys in the men's eight is a Mr. John Watling. Before my senior year of college, my friend Austen and I rowed for the New York Athletic Club. One of the guys rowing with us was this dude trying to get back into rowing after having taken three years off. He told us he was good in college, but when he started rowing with us, he sucked. I mean, straight up was not good. Then he started talking about how he was going ot try and get back in shape enough to get on the U.S. Squad. Ha! Right! Austen and I had plenty of teammates trying to do the same thing, but they had taken no years off and were in a lot better shape than this guy. Well, this guy was John Watling, and he proved us so wrong it's almost funny.
What's especially humorous is that at the end of that summer of training, the three of us rowed in a four with with one other guy. We set a record for the most medals won at Canadian Henley, and at that time, Austen and I were the two best guys in the boat. That, I assure you, is very long ago now. I can't even row for twenty minutes without tearing up my baby soft hands. John, on the other hand, is out there racing at the Olympics in the U.S.'s premire boat going faster than anyone has ever gone before.
I'm crossing my fingers they can keep it up. Last Olympics, the eight was favored to win after having won the past three World Championships. They ended up totally choking and several men felt like they had wasted a good portion of their lives. It was very sad.
Maybe this is the time when they do it. A lot of other guys came out of retirement for this thing, which, as I said before, is not an easy thing to do. I cannot even imagine living through one day of the pain that used to make up my existence for nealy seven years. No fucking way.
I feel bad for two guys that I rowed with in college who are in the men's quadruple sculls event (sculling is two oars, sweeping is one. Sculling has the single, the double, and the quad. Sweeping has the pair, the four, and the eight.) I'm proud of those guys for making the boat, but the quad is usually the U.S.'s weakest event and it looks like those guys will be eliminated early.
But, here's to Athens!
God, I love the Olympics.
If I die of exhaution, there is one bright spot.
I will finally reside in one place for more than a year!
Just hold out for two more weeks.
I'm bringing it on myself a little bit because I'm also shooting some stuff more a music video. Nothing big, just something for my reel that I think will look cool. When you have all these people working all the time, it's hard not to be inspired.
Sorry I haven't responded to all you who are always leaving comments in my journal. Anyone who hasn't ckilcked on klaire in my friends list shoul do so. She's in Antartica and usually has some interesing stories to tell. Thes rest of you are all very interesting too, but you're not in Antartica. And of couse you know, August is "sympathy for Antarticans" month.
I will finally reside in one place for more than a year!
Just hold out for two more weeks.
I'm bringing it on myself a little bit because I'm also shooting some stuff more a music video. Nothing big, just something for my reel that I think will look cool. When you have all these people working all the time, it's hard not to be inspired.
Sorry I haven't responded to all you who are always leaving comments in my journal. Anyone who hasn't ckilcked on klaire in my friends list shoul do so. She's in Antartica and usually has some interesing stories to tell. Thes rest of you are all very interesting too, but you're not in Antartica. And of couse you know, August is "sympathy for Antarticans" month.
