This time next week, the Beijing Olympics will be under way and, I have to admit, I'm feeling woefully unprepared.
While I know a thing or two about the city's smog and various human rights issues, I've got a blind spot on the sports themselves.
Do we Brits have any medal hopes on the track, and will I have to get up in the middle of the night to watch the action?
One of the most exciting things that can happen at the Olympics is the way in which a surprise medal win can turn someone overnight into a household name. Win gold and, the next thing you know, there's a press pack back home interviewing the landlord of your local pub.
Writing in the Olympics guide with today's Guardian, Paul Kelso says Britain's team is "the largest, most lavishly funded and best prepared ever" to enter a summer games.
Team GB seems to have an at least half decent chance of reaching its target of eighth in the medals table, though few of those will come on the track. In athletics, Phillips Idowu stands the best - and perhaps the only realistic - chance of a gold medal in the men's triple jump (the final of which is on Thursday August 21).
The middle weekend is when British hopes for success will be highest. The cyclists - hot on the heels of their nine gold medals in the recent track world championships - sailors and rowers will all be in action.
The BBC's TV coverage starts at around 2am most days though, fortunately, many events take place after breakfast time. If it's not on the Beeb, NBC is also streaming many events.
Apart from the 100m final (Sunday August 17), which could be a cracker, I'm also quite intrigued by the Greco-Roman wrestling (Thursday August 14).
Some grumpy colleagues are telling me they are not interested at all - but which events are you looking forward to?
