Pity. I was rather enjoying myself. It's really cool, to be able to sit in the living room and have a cup of iced milo without anyone around to bother me. Also, I would get to occupy just about anywhere in the house. And I didn't have to check my hair in the mirror after my showers. Also I could stretch out on the couch and not worry about taking up space that other people might want to use. Plus I could read the papers at my own leisure, lounge around and be as messy as I liked, and make those awesome domino thingies all over the place!
Okay I only tried to do that last one. I wasn't very patient, so it didn't go very far. Also I didn't have enough dominos to create any real effect.
I must buy more dominos. In fact, everyone go buy a bunch of dominos. Then we can have a great domino party one day, somewhere. I'm already drawing up a mental sketch of what it's going to look like...
Anyway, life as I know it will be different. I visited Breadtalk again today, and they were still void of donuts. It was as if the god of donuts himself took a vacation. Gah. This is sad.
Aaaanyway, I'm going to wake up tomorrow and find my parents at home. Or I'm going to meet them soon before I go to sleep. Hm.
Also I seem to be having writer's block again. So I'll just give everyone another Greek myth.
The Story of Oedipus
Laius, the King of Thebes, is distressed over his lack of a
child. He consults the oracle of Apollo at Delphi, which informs
him that any child born to his wife, Jocaste, shall become his
murderer.
Nevertheless, a boy is born to the couple. Laius takes the
baby, pierces his feet and binds them together, and exposes him
on a mountainside. A shepherd finds the baby, names him
Oedipus (“swollen-foot”), and takes him to Corinth and King
Polybus and Queen Merope who, childless themselves, adopt
the infant as their own.
As a young man, Oedipus is taunted for not looking like
his parents (Polybus and Merope). Unsatisfied by their
assurances, he goes to Delphi to find the truth. “Away from this
holy place, you wretch!” cries the priestess. “You will kill your
father and marry your mother!”
To avoid this horrible fate, Oedipus leaves immediately in
the opposite direction from Corinth. On the way he meets a
man in a chariot on a narrow road. They argue, and Oedipus
kills the man. Approaching Thebes, Oedipus meets the Sphinx:
a monster with a woman’s head, a lion’s body, a serpent’s tail,
and an eagle’s wings. The Sphinx is plaguing Thebes at the
request of Hera, in revenge for a crime of Laius’s. She asks any
passer-by her riddle, and a wrong answer means the unlucky
passer-by becomes lunch. Her riddle: “What being, with only
one voice, has sometimes two feet, sometimes three, sometimes
four, and is weakest when it has the most?” Oedipus answers
correctly; the Sphinx throws herself off a cliff. The Thebans
gratefully proclaim Oedipus king; he marries Jocaste, and rules
happily for many years, raising a family of four children.
A plague descends on Thebes. Asked for advice, the
Delphic oracle says, “Expel the murderer of Laius!” Oedipus
pronounces a curse on the murderer, and promises to banish
him as soon as he is found. From the prophet Tiresias and
others he soon finds the truth. Jocaste hangs herself; Oedipus
puts his eyes out and is sent into exile.
