Kitty Cats and Griselda

So, there was a cat stuck in our swamp cooler today. Apparently all through the day, Jeremy and Mom were looking for it in the garage (it was meowing pretty loudly) and couldn't find it. We stuck Riley in the swamp cooler and he started sniffing and the cat growled a little. We got it out, Andrei was epic excited, things went and played out well.

Oh, I just finished the Clerk's Tale in The Canterbury Tales. It's...different. Basically, this really poor girl Griselda ends up marrying the marquis and he puts her through these horrible tests. She meekly accepts whatever he tells her to do and so he tries her by pretending to kill their daughter and son and then divorce her and marry someone younger. He makes her prepare for the wedding and interact with the girl (who is actually her daughter) and in the end decides he can't take how well she's accepting all of this crap and tells her the truth. She's epic happy and things go well.

The thing is, really, it's talking about society (they comment on how the people are all against how the marquis is a murderer but when he brings in the new girl and she's so pretty, they are so happy and "realizes" why the marquis divorces Griselda) and maybe even comments on the love of society. Back then, love was seen more like lust is today and Griselda's devotion and need to please Walter is the love Chaucer shows. It also brings up the question of morality: obviously the marquis was only testing Griselda's morality and faithfulness, but he's ways of doing it are so immoral and out there. To test her submissiveness, he goes to extremes to pretend to kill his children and then send them away to be raised by his sister. Really?

Today was alright. I've been tired all week long because I love staying up late which really doesn't help that I have to wake up early in the morning. So nothing really exciting until...Robotics. Get there, say hi, stuck between like two groups of people who all like me because I can't say mean things to people. There had recently been a break up in the club and it's been pretty awkward. Groups were pretty much redefined and it's really apparent that the guy in the relationship just kind of went along with the rest of the group because they were people that he kind of needed. It was interesting. Talked to this one chick who is just crazy fun and I was super surprised to find out she's a freshman! Eh, Robotics was interesting today. Played with a servo and accelerometer. That was epic fun. But yeah, that's pretty much most of my day.

-Mew
Scarlet Bloodmoon