Greek ow

[tilly_stratford]

I saw you face in a crowded place
And I don't know what to do
'Cause I'll never be with you

Well, a bit crankier and more sunburned than I have ever been in my life before, but nevertheless I've returned from Greece!

Just to get this over and done with, here you have a nice little bullet list:



- We lived in Swedish Touristville. I loathe tourists. Even when I'm one of them. I hate whole villages especially built for tourists. Bah.
- I bought a small alabaster knock-off of Praxiteles' Hermes-statue. The childish part of me that has had a tiny crush on Hermes (yes, the god) since I was ten, is very very content indeed.
- I spent days just reading. Very, very nice.
- Although I never dreamed of lying sprawled out under the sun (to paraphrase American gods which I read during my stay; "I couldn't tan at gunpoint"), I spent some time of each day swimming, and is therefore currently painfully lobster-red. When it subsides I will be blueish-pale once more.
- I finally decided that the temperature of Norwegian summers is absolutely perfect for me - not too hot, not too cold. Norway how I've missed thee.
- I think Greece is the place where all the Beetle Volkswagens have gone. And the old Vespa scooters.
- I learned that I'm fully able, when I am alone, to squish big cockroaches without screaming. And I was kinda fascinated it did happen like on Men in black; a crunch, and goo flying all over the floor.
- I saw a guy that my brain instantly recognised as the Greek love-child of Elijah Wood and my former classmate Juma. Physically impossible, but major yummy.
- Cicadas absolutely EVERYWHERE. I've never heard such an annoying sound in my life. And I kept thinking about that Haru wo daite ita special (Winter cicada), and dirty things popped into my head each time I saw one.
- Oh, and I started on Jeeves and the feudal spirit, and I just have to sporfle when I read that Jeeves' club is called Ganymede Junior. Whoa. I get the whole cup-bearing parallell, but if I remember the myth correctly Zeus had Ganymede around for quite different *cough* purposes. And now I was finally certain the Jeeves books was my safest fandom, without any undertones whatsoever. You just know there's nothing funny going on between Reginald and Bertram.



Well, now you know I haven't kicked the bucket. I need to apply some more aloe vera now. Greek ow.

Comments

[shadowgardens.livejournal.com]

Hermes rocks.

There should be a movie about cicadas taking over the world. They're fucking creepy and loud.

[tilly-stratford.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I arrived at midnight, went to bed, and at six sharp the next morning I woke up to this unbelievable wall of noise. I had never heard a cicada in my life, so it freaked me out. After a week of that I'd be glad to never have to hear another ever again.

[athenegenia.livejournal.com]

The Praxiteles Hermes?
I had to study that for my Classical Art class...WOOF!

O I love Greece, I miss it terribly...sigh

Heh heh heh Ganymede. Everytime I see that word I snigger. But, really, could the Butlers not have known about Ganymede? His name means "Loins of joy" or something like that, for Zeus' sake!

[tilly-stratford.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was in an ubelievable amount of stores to find a Hermes copy that was just right. I thought about buying one in marble that was about a metre high, but that would have meant no more food for the rest of the week, so -- just a small one. (Bah, I gave most of my dinners away to the stray cats, anyway).

"Loins of joy", eh? Heh, I didn't know that. I'm pretty sure J. and the feudal spirit isn't the first story I've read where the club is mentioned, but back then I hadn't really taken an interest in the shadier aspects of mythology. Ah, that innocense I'll never know again...

[athenegenia.livejournal.com]

I did pretty much the same thing looking for an Athene Parthenos. Hey- it's important!
Awwww Greeks cats ♥

Shadier= slashier, right?
Oh man, I don't know how they manage to keep the darker side of the myths away from children. Now I only know how to tell them with all the sex and incest and canabalism...Ah well. ^_^

[tilly-stratford.livejournal.com]

Slashier is right, yeah. My real love's for norse mythlogy, actually, but there's pitiful amounts of slash there (as opposed to adultery, beastiality, prostitution, raping...)

But still, I remember even my religion classes when I was little were cencored. It was a shock when I got older just what my teacher had ignored when she had told me common Bible stories. I just remember it was a bit shady why Joseph was jailed by Potiphar....