Oh. Un cadeau.

I'm in a weird mood. (hahah I just typed moos) Maybe its a combination of the fact that I actually don't have an avalanche of homework coming at me tonight, my hair looks really good today and I get to leave early from school on Friday to go to Cali. I'm ignoring all the annoying things that happened to me today and am staying in my fabulous mood, which will involve skipping all John Mayer that comes on my ipod. How does he make such depressing music if his life is so great?

Anyway, a funny thing happened today (well actually I think it was funny and about 85% of you will not think it is funny at all). We are reading The Iliad in my AP English Literature class right now. I didn't type that because I wanted to brag about being in AP (which I definitely shouldn't be because I'm pretty sure I am failing that class right now), but to tell you that my teacher also teaches a class called Humanities and they are also reading The Iliad. My class isn't actually reading The Iliad, we read it over the summer and now we are going back over and discussing it. That is very important considering I have already read the whole book and they are only on like Book 9 or something (there are 24). Anyway I was saying to my friends at lunch who are in Humanities that it would be cool to have two German Shepards and name them Hector and Paris. They are the two brothers from Troy and Hector is the best Trojan warrior and Paris is a little wimp. Don't believe me? This Paris in the movie Troy:

Yeah, Orlando Bloom. As in the least tough person in the world. Although pleasing to look at, he is also this

That's right, an elf. And I'm pretty sure that's a skirt. Not that I can really say anything, because I used to have this poster in my room.

If you move around, it looks like the arrow is following you. SO, Paris is well portrayed in Troy. But everyone else is terrible. I mean, they cast fricken Brad Pitt as ACHILLES! If you have not gone through The Iliad as deeply as my class has, you would know that Brad Pitt is a terrible choice for Achilles and Troy is possibly the worst movie ever created, right after the first Twilight and The Proposal.

ANYWAY, my friends were saying that it would be stupid to name a dog Paris because he is a wimp, and you should name it Achilles. But I said that it would be dumb to name the two dogs Hector and Achilles because they are mortal enemies and Achilles would have to be a light colored dog, which is not a German Shepard. Then I started thinking about what kid of dog would be light enough and vicious enough to be named Achilles, but none of them could think of any good ideas. One of them said a Great Dane, which is like the nicest dog in the world. Then one of them suggested whippets, which is the least threatening looking dog (although they can be quite vicious) and I thought of greyhound. Of course I couldn't name the greyhound Achilles (too slim) but I could name it Patroclus! It was perfect, and then, I said:

"But, it's so sad when Patroclus dies!"

And my friends were like "WHAT!" because they haven't gotten to that part of the book yet. And I was like "oh, well, spoiler alert!" I had already known going into to the book because because when Lauren read it she told me absolutely everything that happened in excruciating detail because we were in the Middle of Nowhere, WV and our cousins were always off rock climbing and I had no interest whatsoever in reading "Till We Have Faces" by C.S. Lewis, which was my summer reading and was about Cupid and Psyche.



(this is cupid and psyche)

So, I didn't really think that there were other people who didn't know the story of The Fall of Troy (I mean come on, where have you been for that past 3000 years?) Plus, one of my friends didn't read The Odyssey freshman year, so that was another reason she had no idea what was going on. But, since I'd already ruined that part for them, I decided to just go ahead and tell them the whole ending, including how Paris kills Achilles with a arrow guided by Apollo. SPOILER ALERT!! Just kidding, that part isn't even in The Iliad.

I'll let you know when I find a suitable dog for Achilles.

Cheers,
Cayla