Thoughts from the Field

THE WALKWAY BETWEEN THE TWO BUILDINGS & ONLY A FEW SMOKERS OUT THERE TONIGHT (figure skating is going on, they're smoking outside that building now)

While I can't take credit for this, it's got a tongue-in-cheek truthful ring to it.

*No matter what time you go into the bathroom at the Main Media Center there will always be someone coming out of that small door at the same time. Or vice versa. There is a rumor that there are people living in two of the stalls. They are never open. (MY SIDEBAR: Additionally, no matter the time of day, if you have to go really, really, really bad, the bathrooms are closed for cleaning. Noon, midnight, 10:35.18, whenever. If you're ready to burst you'll have to find one through the smoking hall)

*There’s also a rule that smokers can’t be more than two feet from the swinging glass doors between pavilions 3 and 5.

*A police car set a new speed record between pavilions 3 and 5 yesterday hitting 63 kilometers per hour. 28 smokers were almost injured, three of them children.

*Somebody subtly changes the directions of the escalators in the Main Media Center each day. However, during lunch, they are turned off.

*The return media bus from Ice Hockey got lost the first day and is still on a round about on Via Nizza avenue. There are hockey writers on that bus that think they are going to a U.S.-Canada gold medal game.

*Journalists in the mountains are on a different planet. Torino and Sestriere are the alpha and the omega of experiences.