Having been brought up in an Olympics-loving household, I have always enjoyed the Games.
One prominent memory of childhood is from 2000, when I got up early and joined the rest of my family to huddle around a tiny television and roar Steve Redgrave on to his fifth Olympic gold, while I defy anybody to not find Usain Bolt's performances in Beijing sensational.
Unsurprisingly then, I am looking forward to the Games this summer. However, the fact that they are in London doesn't make me - as a Brit - any more excited than I usually would be.
I agree with a recent post on this site that the media have suffocated much optimism, although the 'omnishambles' in the last week concerning security have threatened to parachute the BBC sitcom 'TwentyTwelve' into nonfictional and even prophetic territory.
But I can't help but feel that my indifference toward these Games - and I doubt I am alone in it - is that it is not Britain that will be shown off to the world; it is simply London. Living in the north-west of the country, it just doesn't feel as if the Olympics is happening nearby.
Everything has been planned around the capital rather than the country.
There are 10 out-of-London venues for the Olympics according to the official website, and Old Trafford, St. James' Park, and Hampden Park help to sell the idea of a 'British' Games. These are all being used for football though - hardly the iconic Olympic sport and so barely inspiring.
The most obvious representation of this London-centric thinking has been the shunning of the National Cycling Centre in Manchester. Rather than send athletes up the 200 miles to a track that has housed major championships for the last decade, £93 million was spent to build a VeloPark in London.
I'm not saying more events should be outside of London. 2012 is of course the year of the London Olympics, not the British Olympics.
Because of that fact though, it seems absolutely natural that many people outside of the capital aren't too bothered or excited about the Games being here. City does not equal nation readily, so what is being felt in one part of Britain shouldn't be expected to be felt throughout it.
I have no doubt that I'll be watching as much of the Games as I can. In two weeks time we will see some extraordinary performances and accomplishments, and there will be lots of compelling television.
However, these Games will be watched in our household with the same detachedness as Sydney, Athens, and Beijing were, as there will be the same level of interaction - watching them on a box - with the athletes (unless a driver takes a spectacular wrong turn).
So the press coverage may be unfairly negative by focusing on the blunders leading up to the Games, following the strange yet accepted media formula that bad news outsells good news. But it would be an equally false portrayal of the Olympics if the newspapers were full of people excited about the Games being staged over here, because - for a sizable chunk of the nation - it doesn't feel any different at all.