Jun. 4th, 2007

Weird

Jun. 4th, 2007 09:51 pm
desoto_hia873: (River - I Can See You - wickedgoddess_)
Although my parents are from Newfoundland and I was born in Toronto, I spent most of my growing-up time in Ottawa. We moved there when I was five years old. I left to go to university, but wound up back there during various summers and again for nearly 10 years after finishing my PhD.

And yet I've never really liked the place all that much. Ottawa's climate is stiflingly hot and humid in the summer and bitterly cold in the winter (although global warming is helping out with the latter a little bit). It's flat, it's far away from just about everywhere, and nationally detested because that's where the government lives. There are a few things I like about the place--the city has never felt as large as it is, and it has a lot of Vietnamese restaurants--but I've always preferred southern Ontario and the east coast. Ottawa just seems like my parents' city, and I'm happy not to live there.

I've also never been much of a fan of team sports. I follow the University of Guelph's football team, but that's about it. I don't watch baseball, soccer, professional football, hockey (bad Canadian!), basketball, etc. Generally, I can't even stand being in the same room as a hockey game--I find the sound of it irritating. The only hockey game I've watched on TV in more than 30 years was the Canada/U.S. gold medal round at the Salt Lake City Olympic games because I knew everyone at work would be talking about it the next day, and I didn't want to be completely left out.

And yet...

The Ottawa Senators have made it to the Stanley Cup this year for the first time in their renewed history. This had me perpiphally interested enough to remember to listen to the sports news on CBC on the mornings after the games just to hear who won. I figured that would be as far as it went, especially after they wound up 0-2 after the first two games. But then they went and won their third one, and now they're tied in the second period of the fourth.

How do I know this?

Because I'm sitting here in a hotel room in Pembroke watching the freaking thing on television. All by myself. Voluntarily.

Who am I and what did I do with Kristina?

Furthermore, I kind of want them to win, and I think I'm going to be disappointed if they don't.

Apparently, my loyalty to my Ottawa roots is a little stronger than I thought.

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