elphie

I read your description on my laptop via WiFi *right* before the death of Achilles. That was really, really cool. We also started chanting "Legolas! Legolas!" after Orlando Bloom drew a bead on him with the bow.

I also love mythology, but I really enjoyed seeing the Illiad as a human story rather than (to use your phrase) human beings simply being chess pieces in the hands of the gods.

Everyone else has already given the compliments, so I'll give you my take, instead:

I'd really like to be handsome. Oh, I'm okay, I suppose. I didn't fall out of the ugly tree and hit EVERY branch on the way down. But I'm not ... you know ... handsome. I'd like to be, but I know people who are, and I'm just ... not.

So I settle, instead, for being incredibly funny, witty, smart, well-read, fun. And you know what? It's weird. People start to think of me as good-looking. Or, at least, better looking.

You've got all kinds of things going for you, and I think you may be prettier than you know.