Oh, Whatever (Looking for Alaska/ Paper Towns spoilers in there somewhere.)

A kind of review...

Looking For Alaska by John Green and Paper Towns, also by John Green, are basically the same book for me. Both have an intelligent male protaginist who isn't exactly the most popular guy in town. They're both full of wise little tidbits. (I went and highlighted my copy of Looking For Alaska, I couldn't resist.) Each main character is in love with the unattainable girl, and then he almost gets the girl, but the girl goes somewhere he can't follow. (Alaska dies, and Margo runs away.) They each go on this huge quest type of thing. For Pudge it's about finding out what happened to Alaska and for Quentin it's about literally finding Margo.

I was really unhappy with the lack of new material, because I think John Green can do better than that. Alone, it's quite a good book, but compare it to LfA and I'm repeatedly annoyed.

In another words, I have new sneakers, and they are cool, but not cool enough for me to describe them.

In other other words, I love Skype the way other people love newborn babies. it's so much fun. There are lots of people from the ning there. I'm quite proud of myself for kind of starting it all, it's good fun, honestly, and you get to hear people's accents, which completely makes my day. They're so British/ Caribbean/ whatever else and amazing!

Done for today, I'll write a proper blog eventually.
Maybe.

REE

*thinks too much*

"What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person."

me: Guess what.
5:08 PM
Trevor: what
5:09 PM
dinner
5:10 PM
me: argh. I'll wait till you get back.
16 minutes
5:27 PM
Trevor: b

what
5:28 PM
me: I finished Paper Towns and while I wasn't completely happy with it, I learned something.

"What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person."

Isn't that the most tragic and important thing...ever?
5:30 PM
Isn't that what we spend our entire lives doing? Idealizing some people, so that we can only be disappointed, and if people don't fit into this ideal then they aren't important enough, and we don't like them or are apathetic because they're just like we are.

Trevor: ...?

oh, yeah, building up unreal expectations of people
5:32 PM
me: I do that all the time. I've done it with Mom and Chase and Taylor (so much with Taylor) and not you as much, but some, and Mr. P and everyone.

Trevor: what have you misoverestimated about me?
5:36 PM
me: It's not that exactly, it's just that you're totally cool and don't know it as much as you should. And people who don't know that they're cool are way cooler than people who try to be cool. So that makes you cooler than I am, because I am inherently uncool.
5:37 PM
Trevor: lol

that took a couple times reading

me: if you can make sense of that.
5:40 PM
Trevor: I can.

it took a while, because I just got ambushed in the middle of it.
5:41 PM
this is feeling a lot like all of those fml's ...

like, ignoring people and playing a game...

me: ?
5:43 PM
Trevor: like I'm paying attention to a game instead of you

me: Wow, my epiphanies are important. (psuedo epiphanies)
5:44 PM
Can I use this for a blog?
5:45 PM
Trevor: go for it.

me: thanks

That's annoying formatting, but I've realized that I also want myself to be more than a person. But no one is more than a person...but why should that stop me...? *headache* I will think more about this later, when I am not busy and when my spacebar lets me think more clearly.

Au Revoir For now,
REEEEEEEEEE