zeddotes: The Blog and Portfolio of Zain Syed

I worked a pointless shift today. I was working 5p – 9p and I swear those were the longest 4 hours of my life. There was this hour long clip of different movie trailers recorded and was on repeat the whole time I was there. There was a clip of this show called something like Flower Pushers or something and it’s pretty much surrounded on these women working in a floral shop. The episodes are based on how busy their life is working at a store like that…especially during Valentine’s Day.

Anyway, they clip featured information about the show as well as a tiny interview with one of the main women from the show. That woman started talking about some really emo shit! She was talking about how she got an order for 5 dozen black roses for a gothic Valentine, or something like that. And then, she once got an order for a divorce-celebration. The lady who had ordered the 10 dozen roses paid for the flowers with her ex-husbands credit card and decided to chop the flowers up once the celebration started. What a waste of money…and roses…

So I’ve decided. I’m going to post summaries of what I have read in the Iliad until I’m done reading it and I’ve written my essay; this way, I have a place of notes that help me understand and remember what happened in each book of the Iliad and also, you guys can embark in the homosexual journey with me! I’m not getting sucked into this alone.

Book 1

Agamemnon, the chief of the Trojans and Achilles, a strong and noble warrior in the Trojans have sacked a couple of cities and have taken two girls from one of the cities. Chrysies (sp?) and Brysies (sp?) are the two girls. Chrysies’ father comes up to Agamemnon with unlimited ransom for the release of his daughter but Agamemnon being the bitch ass he is, sends the father of the girl away and does not take the ransom. Chrysies’ father then goes to Apollo and complains about what has happened and promises Apollo that if Apollo helps him, he will sacrifice a lot of ox.

Apollo says, “seen!” Apollo brings hell upon the Trojans. Apollo, single-handedly starts destroying the Trojans one by one. Achilles tells Agamemnon to ask Calchas (the seer) to anounce the reason as to why Apollo is doing this. Calchas being scared but brave at the same time, tells Agamemnon and Achilles that it’s pretty much what Agamemnon had done. Achilles gets pissed off at Agamemnon and convinces him to send the girl off to her father. Agamemnon is pissed but says that if he sends the girl off, he gets to keep Achilles’ girl. Achilles obviously doesn’t agree, but he has to do what it is said by Agamemnon because some goddess confronts Achilles and convinces him to calm down and give the girl to Agamemnon. Achilles then has to agree.

Once the girl is taken away from Achilles, he cries. He calls down his mother, who is a goddess, and bitches at her about what Agamemnon had done with his girl. The mom tells Achilles that Zeus owes her a favour as it is so she will use that as an advantage. Zeus, at the time was gone from Olympus to some city for a visit of 12 days. When he returns, the mom asks Zeus to do something and Zeus quickly agrees and tells her to go away because Hera, the bitch of a wife Zeus has, was going to come to see him and he would have gotten in shit if he was seen with another woman.

That is where Book 1 finishes off. I’ll have Book 2 up in no time! lol.

Tags: different, valentines

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