i watched the show "ugly americans" tonight for the first time. it's very good, & i really like it. :) i'll have to keep tuning in for that one. definitely.
also, i saw the new iphone & i'm very interested. i think it's better looking. hopefully they do get it for verizon & i can get one. if not, i'll just use my upgrade to get a droid instead. close enough.
i actually paid $13 for a CD today! at starbucks! how sad. but i walked in & then i noticed Peggy Lee sitting there staring me down & i had to do it. starbucks had Peggy Lee! so i bought it. :) i love her.
i went to starbucks because i was on kind of a date. he was very, very nice. older than i thought, & he has a 4-year-old son, but he was very nice. & i don't really mind the age or the son. ;) you know me.. anyway, we had no trouble at all talking, & ended up talking for like 3 hours i think.. we were sitting outside & i got a sunburn on my nose & cheeks, along with a v-neck triangle of my chest. :P oh yeah, & my jeans have a big hole over the left knee, so i have a funny burn there too. ;)
i've decided to read the iliad & the odyssey. i feel like everyone else has read the latter, but i skipped around so much during school i didn't have the same curriculum as any of them. that's not why i want to read it; i've been really excited about mythology recently. i have that edith hamilton book to read still, & i haven't made it very far. it's been difficult to read for a long time. hopefully i'll make time for it when i live alone. hopefully i'll make time for lots of things i've given up when i live alone.
i've learned that the heavens & the seas were the original parents, the Titans were their children, & the gods & goddesses were the grandchildren. that's basically the first page. :P also, i learned a little about calypso & callisto tonight.
Calypso was a sea goddess, also known as Atlantis, daughter of the Titans Atlas & Tethys. during the war of the titans, Calypso supported her parents & the Titans, so she was kind of banished to the island Ogygia, which was possibly somewhere in the atlantic ocean. she's famous for trapping Odysseus on the island with her for like 7 years. finally, Athena complained & then they made her let him go.
Callisto was a nymph, daughter of the king of Arcadia, & one of Artemis's young nymph followers, so she took a vow to remain virgin. buuuuut, Zeus seduced her with shapeshifting treachery & then she was pregnant. when Artemis found out, she was ostracized from the group, & Hera was so pissed she turned Callisto into a bear, & then Callisto had a son, Arcas. supposedly, like 16 years later, Callisto the bear wandered into the woods & was almost killed by her son Arcas, so to avoid the tragedy, Zeus sent them up into the sky to be the constellations Ursa Major & Ursa Minor (big bear & little bear; the big & little dippers). then, basically, Hera was so mad at him for sabotaging her attempts, she appealed to the Titan Ocean(us), son of Uranus & Gaia, asking him never to let the two bears touch his waters, which explains their circumpolar positions.
all this information is from the book "mythology" by edith hamilton, or from hours of getting lost in wikipedia.
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