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Tour de France Fantasy Team
// 3rd July
Holidays are awesome. No essays hanging over my head, no sir. To-day I got up after ten, pulled on last nights trackies and undershirt, and strolled down – in the wintry but warm sun – to the supermarket looking for milk and bananas to go on my oats. There were some kids standing in the entrance trying to pry money from people’s wallets. Heck yes I was up for it. I caught their eye and walked into it. Cancer research. A couple of English lasses named Sam and Kat. After some fooling about and being told that Sam was Kat and Kat was Sam (lols, kids), they started telling me all about cancer research. No, they didn’t. They started mocking me. Not in a bad way, they must have been good at their gig and known I’d take it. First they had a go at me for just getting up. Then they asked if I was a clothing model, in reference to my trackies, thongs, pillow-hair, and clearly unshowered appearance. I hurried them through their spiel on cancer research (I’m all for cancer research, but it was pretty boring), and started asking them why they thought it was important enough for them to devote their time to, ’cause there’s plenty of ways people are dying, and even if we cure cancer people will still die and all, but at some point I let slip that I didn’t have a job, which made them lose interest completely, as their tax bonus whatever-it-was that they were hocking wasn’t going to work for me anyway. Oh well.
In the absence of any deadlines, I washed a pile of dishes, called a friend, and read a few chapters of Infinite Jest. I’d call that perfectly productive.
The start of the Tour de France is less than twenty-four hours away now. 11:30 PM to-morrow night, for those counting down on the east coast of Australia. I am a little bit excited. In preparation I am staying up late and watching Federer vs. Haas at Wimbledon.
I also submitted my fantasy team. Alberto Contador, Cadel Evans, Carlos Sastre, Frank Schleck, Vladimir Karpets, Thomas Dekker, Vladimir Efimkin, Stephane Auge, and Eduardo Gonzalo. I really wanted both the Schleck brothers, as I think they will spur each other on if their team is looking good, as they did last year. But alas, I couldn’t afford them both. What can you do with sixty-three million pounds, eh? I picked Gonzalo because I was low on cash money, and a crazy Spaniard will always win one of the early stages… let’s hope it’s Gonzalo. My ‘bonus stage’ is Andorra la Vella to Saint-Girons, the second mountain stage, which I am hoping Sastre will win after someone (probably a crazy Spaniard) knocks themselves out looking for short-term glory on the first mountain stage. And my ‘bonus team’ is Euskaltel-Euskadi, who I picked up fairly cheap, and hope will get points early on, then stay somewhat consistent throughout the race.
I don’t know much about the Tour, so there’s a lot of theories and guesses there. I’m sure the fact that I haven’t really picked a good sprinter will come back to bite me.
At least half the fun of it is having people to hang out with to all hours while watching. So don’t let me down friends. I’ve got company lined up for all but the first five stages–so if you’re in the Sydney area and you’re keen, let me know.
Really the only bad thing about the situation is that The Ashes are going to overlap the Tour. But they don’t start yet, so more on that later. The Ashes, and that people are going to expect me to be awake during the day.
Edit: Dekker out, Hincapie in.
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i watched the first stage tonight, even though I had work at 4am. It was pretty interesting hey. You weren’t tempted by big Lance? Anyway I may watch tomorrow’s stage with you if I can be bothered not getting any sleep again before work.
Bizzle, July 5th