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My fan recently informed me that its been 2 months since my last post, which isn't very impressive. So allow me to update you;

The summer is so nearly over and its been pretty busy.

If you'll permit me, I would like to briefly discuss the weather, which has been fantastic. Its so incredibly refreshing to just know that tomorrow will be another shorts, t-shirt and sandals day. Its the American dream isn't it? Or at least what it appears like on Dawsons Creek. Ask your older sister.

But whilst its positively thrilling to be in America when the sun is out, it is quite the opposite once the Olympics start. The coverage on TV is pretty decent, its on most of the day. The problem is that they just win everything, and they know it. And I'll confess that whilst I am a fan, the Micheal Phelps thing is starting to get a little annoying. I scoffed when ABC refered to him as the 'greatest Olympian', but when the same thing was said on the BBC website, it got me thinking as to what exactly makes someone the greatest Olympian?

Now, naturally I'm very biased, but Steve Redgrave won 5 golds in 5 Olympics spanning 16 years, which to me is far more impressive. He has stayed at the top of the world for 16 years in a much much tougher sport. The same argument is often seen in football when talking about the best ever players. No doubt there have been many better defenders then Paulo Maldini, but he has been playing consistently for one of the top teams in the world for 20 years.

So is the greatest Olympian judged on consistency or medals tally? It is here were I will have to concede defeat. All my arguments for Steve Redgrave are subjective, they are opinion, open to endless debate. Micheal Phelps has cold hard numbers on his side, more gold medals then anyone else, and for that reason alone I'm afraid its too hard to argue against him being the greatest. Not in my opinion though, and he'll also never be a knight!

Everyone is getting rather excited over here for the start of the 'real football' season, as am I, although we mean different things. The Seahawks kick off their season this Saturday and there is a small chance I might go see them against Chicago. If not though its no big deal as there 5, FIVE! televised Premiership games this weekend, 4 of which are crap, but I'll watch them anyway.

Finally on a more social note, tonight sees the start of 4 straight evenings of parties. Granted most of them are for people who are leaving, but no matter, they are parties none the same.
The first is this evening for a girl who is leaving, the second is tomorrow evening for the whole staff I think, and the third is a little unique. It is a pool party. Don't ask, I don't really know but it will give me something to talk about in my next blog. Finally there is one on Saturday for another girl who is leaving which I may not be able to attend if I get seahawks tickets.

And I really don't want to be a blog spoil sport but it takes so long to put pictures in that I'm not going to bother. The advise from blog websites is to always do it it make you blog 'interesting' but I'm hoping to make up for it with stunning entertaining writing.

Good day