You buried me right where I belonged and still I'm waiting there

[sovay]

How I have been doing this long weekend is not very well, in ways generically and specifically disheartening, but it has interested me to discover that while I have to do it by hand with pencil and paper, as if it's muscle memory rather than mental recall, I can still scan classical Greek sufficient to fake a Homeric epithet for our Hestia, slayer of towels: μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ τέκνου Ἥρας μακτροφόνοιο. (She sang to us earlier this evening of her triumph over the roll we were still using.) The attentive reader may note that I am relying heavily on both Attic and epic correption and an eighth-century audience would think I didn't know my theogony, but it makes me feel better.

Comments

[asakiyume]

As I said to spatch on Twitter, where he posted a wonderful short video clip illustrating her murderous rage, she was obviously saying, "If you must use paper towels, at least let me kill them for you first!"

[swan_tower]

Heeee -- link? I don't know what his Twitter handle is.

[asakiyume]

It's very adorable.

[sovay]

"If you must use paper towels, at least let me kill them for you first!"

So thoughtful!

[asakiyume]

She Cares About You. (But humor aside--what a sweetie!)

[sovay]

(But humor aside--what a sweetie!

She does care. She is a Good Cat.

[drinkingcocoa]

I had to read it twice before realizing, "Wait... I think Hestia is a cat."

[sovay]

I had to read it twice before realizing, "Wait... I think Hestia is a cat."

Hestia is indeed a cat. And she has it in for paper towels.

[selkie]

*hugs*

[sovay]

*hugs*

*hugs*

[aurumcalendula]

*hugs*

[sovay]

*hugs*

*hugs*

[vass]

*offers hugs* That sounds extremely rough.

I am glad at least you have a Homeric goddess to protect you from towels.

[sovay]

*offers hugs* That sounds extremely rough.

It's not like a three-day weekend is meaningful to me, but it was still unnecessary, you know?

*hugs*

I am glad at least you have a Homeric goddess to protect you from towels.

Thank you. Our sharp-clawed defender of the hearth.

[movingfinger]

She took on the towels and they folded, huh?

[minoanmiss]

ahahahaha *applauds, giggling*

[sovay]

She took on the towels and they folded, huh?

Yes. They did.

[gwynnega]

Hestia's paper towel triumph is well worth the tribute!

[sovay]

Hestia's paper towel triumph is well worth the tribute!

Thank you!

[swan_tower]

For the Latinists who can muddle through the transliteration but no further -- what does it mean???

[sovay]

For the Latinists who can muddle through the transliteration but no further -- what does it mean???

"Sing, goddess, of the wrath of the towel-slaying child of Hera."