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I've been trying to watch the Olympics, but alll that I’ve been able to catch is swimming, diving and beach volleyball. I like beach volleyball though, it’s interesting and fun to watch. I liked the swimming too, I mean, Phelps making history – who knows when we’ll see that again, if we will. So that was fun, to watch a part of history.

I was watching a sport I’d never seen before and didn’t know that it was an event - the open-water swimming. I think it’s in its inaugural year. It was interesting to see that; I think it was 6-point-something miles. I wouldn’t want to do anything for six miles, especially swim! So it was interesting to watch those athletes. It’s fun to watch other athletes in other sports and to appreciate what they’re doing. I couldn’t do what they do, I don’t even like swimming that much so, six miles? I couldn’t do it! And in open water, where you can’t control the elements and there’s no lanes? It's interesting to watch some of those sports that I don’t really get to see regularly.

I love track so I’ve been watching as much of that as I can. Usain Bolt is just crazy – he’s a freak of nature! His races were fun to watch though, he’s just an awesome athlete. It’s crazy to see. To be running the speeds that he’s running is amazing on its own, but to do it at 6’5”? Wow. It was really fun for me, too, because my family is Jamaican so that was a little special for me to see him take over.

His celebration was… I don’t know, he’s very confident. But when you’re running a 9.69 (in the 100 meter dash) I guess you can’t really argue with the guy! It’s probably not something I’d do, but he’s out there having fun. It’s his first Olympics and he’s out there having fun and he’s super confident. He earned the right to gloat a little bit because he’s done something that’s never been done. A 9.69 in the 100-meter dash is incredibly fast.

I missed the women’s racing the other night – I don’t know how – but Ticha [Penicheiro] caught me up on it. A girl I went to school with, Lolo Jones, she ran the hurdles and Ticha was telling me what happened. All the athletes at LSU knew each other. We didn’t really hang out, but I knew who she was and I’m sure she knew who I was. All the athletes lived in the same area so we ran into each other. I’m kind of happy I missed her race though because that’s tough, especially when it’s someone you know. She’s a great athlete and for that to happen, that’s just too bad. I think that’s why I gave up track – you’re out there by yourself and if you mess up, there’s no recovery. Ticha said that Lolo didn’t even completely fall, she just stumbled, and ended up in seventh. That’s tough. There’s no room for mistakes in sprints and that’s why I think those athletes are so tremendous. You have to be on it in every phase of your race. 

I haven’t been in touch with Kara personally, but Jenny told us that she got an email from Kara before practice yesterday and Kara says hello, she misses us and that she can’t wait to come back and get this run for the WNBA playoffs going!

Stay tuned for more information about my plans to go overseas, I will write more about my plans once I know more details!