"Don’t tell me what you believe, 'cause you won’t be there to catch me when I fall..."

[clo_again]

Mmmmm, I am liking 3 Doors Down you know. I love my illegal student network. :)

Roger tore me into tiny pieces with his not-speech this morning. I was curled so tight on the chair, hugging my knees because I had to hug something, that -- when I finally had to get up and walk away from the TV before he started me crying -- it was actually difficult to move. How could the people standing on that court resist the urge to hug him? I was practically hugging the *TV*. My commentators must have hearts of stone because they could still calmly comment on it but apparently he had the Italian commentators in tears. Oh Roger. Never be anyone other than you.

Baghdatis's done it. I saw his goofy grin when he was giving his speech and he was cracking jokes and just so *likeable* and I can't hate him. Not even a little bit, not even for beating Andy. My Cypriot flatmate came to see me earlier, having watched the Cypriot news, and said the Cyprus government are going to give him something like £150,000 because he had no support as a junior and the place where he trained in France only loaned him the money for his tuition on the condition he paid it back when -- if -- he became a good enough player. It's unbelievably sweet how Cyprus seems to have turned out en-masse to support him and I hope we see more of him. Not that there's much doubt about that; he played so *well* in those first couple of sets.

And, in my most shocking news of today, I learned just how easy it is to spill a cup of coffee when a former-and-soon-to-be-again-flatmate you thought was on the other side of the world rings the doorbell and says "Surprise!" when you open the door. (Very easy. Thankfully our carpet seems some miraculous shade of blue that doesn't show coffee stains.) I may have to wreak some Grate and Terrible Revenge on wolves8 for *knowing* and not *telling* me but mainly I'm with the squee right now and revenge can wait till later. Best. Moment. Ever. And she's here for two weeks! And she was in the bloody country when I was talking to her on MSN a week ago and really, there has to be revenge for this some time. Once the squee wears off.

Which may take a while. Hee. Awesomeness.

Oh wow do I need food. Bagels really don't go all that far.

edit: Also? Today has been the bizarrest mix of squee mixed with repeatedly hitting my head on my desk. Crikey. I couldn't have gone more up and down if I'd been a sodding yo-yo. Like now.

*headdesk*

edit: On reflection, I think I need to add a *sigh* to that.

edit: And an "I'm going away again now". Just when you think it's safe to go back in the water to go back to LJ... IT ISN'T. *hums the Jaws theme tune* ;)

Can we not just agree not to talk about this anymore? Please? I like LJ. I've had such a good day, what should've been the best day of the year. Can we please just agree that we all disagree -- for example I don't like Nalbandian, other people do, this is a fact and I've accepted it. So what? All I have to do is not read posts and fic about him and it's okay, instant happiness -- and let the waters settle? Please?

I'm going away for food and to at least *start* my creative writing for tomorrow. Will it be safe to come back to LJ after that? Hell, if the repression way isn't going to work, fine everyone have a rant. Get it out, scream at each other, throw some vases -- at me too, if I've pissed anyone off today -- just do SOMETHING so we can wake up to a shiny new day tomorrow and be over it.

My fingers are twitching to type "HIT ME WITH THOSE VASES, YO." And they did. I don't believe it.

Comments

[carolina30363.livejournal.com]

Andrea Gaudenzi a former player who was commenting the match kept saying, I can't go on I'm crying too, you are the best Roger and the journalist who was there was crying too, an amazing moment!

[clo.livejournal.com]

I don't know how anyone there couldn't cry at that, it was heartbreakingly sweet. Roger really is the best. :)

[kindoftrouble.livejournal.com]

I didn't cry, but I did want to hug my tv. A lot. He was just so adorably cute. I also like Baghdatis. He amuses me. I didn't even hate him when he beat Andy, I resented him a little but not hate.

[clo.livejournal.com]

No one has ever needed a hug more than Roger looked like he did this morning. I think if tennis fans could jump through their TVs, he'd have been flattened under the mass-huggage. Baghdatis has chipped his way into the "players I will happily miss sleep to watch" with every little bit of him I've seen this week. I could've hated him if all I'd seen was the live scores of his match with Andy and never seen him play but onscreen, playing tennis and cracking jokes... he's too loveable *not* to like. :)

[deppprived.livejournal.com]

I actually hugged my TV. Yeah he got me that bad.

Roger's so damn cute, but I also think it showed that he was under a lot of pressure to win this one and as a result he cried because he didn't buckle under the pressure. And now there's even more pressure to win the French Open. I guess he's human after all. *Snuggles*

[clo.livejournal.com]

I was so close to it. *Someone* on that podium needed to hug him, I can't believe they resisted.

I didn't think about that until someone said it earlier and then wondered how I could've been so caught up in Andy that I never thought about the pressure on Roger. He's so amazing to stand up to all that weight of expectation until it was over and it really all came out, like he said. Maybe having won one Slam already this year and with the French being his 'worst' Slam, the expectation will be lifted a little. Not much, but a little. :) He really is amazing and this reminded me just *how* much. *snuggles too*

[deppprived.livejournal.com]

Yeah why didn't anyone give him a hug? *Kicks everyone on that podium*

Roger's so good at hiding his feelings when it's necessary I think people think he's impassive and calm all the time because he's that way on court. I doubt he would ever let anyone show whatever nervousness he has because he wouldn't want his opponents taking advantage of any mental weakness.

Of course we die hard fans know better.

[mina-pak.livejournal.com]

Oo, yay! I'm glad you like 3 Doors Down. :) Good music is always great for listening.

[clo.livejournal.com]

They're really great. :D I've never been happier that I decided to randomly download something.

[tasheila.livejournal.com]

I'm never surprised when he starts crying, seeing as I always see him do it at Wimbledon. ;) What did he say? Didn't get to see the final.

I like feel good stories like Baghdatis. :D

[clo.livejournal.com]

I thought he might cry but I've never seen him break quite as much as he did today. He couldn't find anything to say at first, he just stood there, then managed to thank a couple of people before literally bursting into tears. There was this huge "Aawwww" from the crowd, it was so sweet. He managed to talk enough to thank his support team and the sponsors and Rod Laver before his voice cracked and he was in floods again, I've never seen anything so heartbreakingly adorable. I think this speech might go down in history as "The One Where Roger Cried (a lot)". :)

Me too. :) My commentators said that the name of the little town he comes from in Cyprus means "fairytale" in Greek. How spookily appropriate is that?

[eternalwings.livejournal.com]

Nearly huggged? My mum came in and I was hugging the tv and doing things like this,
"HE'S CRYING OHMIGOSH he cried that is so SWEET"
it went on like that for ages I was crying lol. A little of that was the triumphant and emotion jump, hitting my head on the stairs above me and consequent tears but hey!