Josh and I had planned to go hiking yesterday, but the weather was so bad that we decided that we shouldn't risk running into a storm 10,000 feet up a mountainside (a wise choice, I'm sure).

My family and I had a garage sale today. It was a nightmare! Well, it actually wasn't too bad (I sold $80 of stuff that was just sitting in my closet), but it was a huge amount of work. I'm just glad it's over. I would give more details, but it was so painful that I think my subconscious has already managed to suppress most of the experience.

Tonight I saw Troy with Josh and his friend Drew. The movie was quite entertaining, but for some reason I had a difficult time recalling events from the Iliad. I knew that the movie departed from the text in places, but I wasn't exactly sure of the extent. Also, I kept wanting to call the characters after the names of characters in A Midsummer Night's Dream, for some utterly unfathomable reason (Oh! There's Theseus . . . er, Agamemnon). I need to re-read the Iliad and the Odyssey soon (and evidently A Midsummer Night's Dream as well, because it isn't even similar to Homer's epics). I thought that the acting in the movie was surprisingly good (even Brad Pitt, whom I normally dislike), and there were plenty of intense action sequences. I was somewhat disappointed by the numerous neck wounds portrayed in the film. For some reason, I can't stand seeing slit throats (if I believed in reincarnation, I would say that I was killed in a similar manner in a past life). I wouldn't recommend it as a love story, however, unless you find misogyny romantic.