These are things you will find lying around the NYT office in Barra. If you look at the possible combinations, it all makes sense. Peanut butter and Nutella? That works. Water to help swallow the Advil. Advil because you had too much Chivas. Nescafe because you had too much Chivas. Advil because you mixed the wine and the Chivas. If you can think of any other combinations, please feel free to share with the rest of us.
And speaking of things lying around, this is not a good look. And as Jim Luttrell put it in the subject line of his email to everyone, “It happens every two years”. He also said “i needed to wait a lil while longer to get the drool. ” I was trying to go the whole time without the couch nap, but I had to give in. And that 20 minutes felt great.
When I am not napping, I am often standing in lines waiting for buses. Sometimes they come and sometimes they don’t. And even though everyone is leaving the track stadium after the morning session, they send one bus every half hour. Nobody really cares to hear any of us whine when we are at the Olympics because pretty much everyone would trade places with us. But for us, there are two things they need to get right: transportation and Wifi. The Wifi is surprisingly good and the transportation is horrendous. Our bus to the office takes a route along the beach for a spell to pick up people from another hotel. However, nobody seemed to realize that the men’s road cycle race was on that same road along the beach. Of course they would take a different route the next day when it was the women’s race along the same route. Nope, they were surprised again to find the road blocked off. There has been a lot of that.
Ever wonder what goes on at the venues hours before the competition starts? I very often have to get to the arenas hours before the competition starts to get the photo positions I want. They are first come, first served so I am usually the first one there to grab the spot that I scoped out ahead of time. That’s a big reason why I come a week ahead of time. We go the venues that we are likely to shoot at and find out the best spots to shoot our sequence composites. Thankfully, those spots are rarely the same spots that most of the other photographers want to shoot from. So there are fewer sharp elbow to worry about.
I am usually there when the gymnastics apparatus is getting cleaned, or when the underwater cameras are getting turned on, or when the army comes in to do a bomb sweep. I quite like this time to myself, it’s very Zen and a nice break from all the mayhem that is happening.
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