Why do we spend so much time in school reading about Greek mythology? Greek mythology is boring. I rather like Norse mythology though.
In one of them Thor's hammer is stolen by a giant, who says
he won't give back the hammer unless the gods send Freyja to be his
wife. So Freyja is all like "No, I'm not going, they'll call me a whore
if I do!" (Which is even funnier because in the myth before that in the
book she sells her body to four dwarves in exchange for a gold necklace)
So then one of the other gods gets the idea that they'll send Thor
himself, but dressed up as a bride. So the entire myth is about Thor and
Loki going to get back Thor's hammer while in drag.
There's also a myth which consists mainly of Loki insulting everyone else, through which you find out that the entire Norse pantheon has pretty much slept with each other. (...It beats General Hospital at any rate...)
My break has been pretty good so far, although I haven't really done anything, other than play movie-title pictionary yesterday, which is extra fun when none of the people playing can draw.
And now for two editorials I found kind of interesting: