So. Well. This is a little embarrassing. It’s been three months since I’ve done, well, anything really. I’m sure I have something like three visitors left. Oh, well. Admittedly, I’ve been thinking about writing things for a month and a half, but I wanted to get up a new layout before I made a glorious return. And while I was working on said layout, the website disappeared. I took that as a sign that it was really about time to start over.

Of course, I didn’t really want to work so hard as to start completely over, which is why I was glad when my files reappeared. (I’m not really into torturing myself like that.) Still, it made me realize: it’s time to come back. Well, what’s left to come back to, anyway. This section of the internet seems to be like a stream in the middle of a drought (i.e., non-existent).

What’s happened since I left? Well, I’m a high school graduate, class of 2010! (I ought to update my “About” page. Not that I wrote it like a year ago, or anything.) I don’t have to go to school any more, and while my sister still gets up to go to class at 5:40 every morning, I sleep soundly. Life is good when you can stay in bed until 9:00, did you know that? (Why not later? Later makes me feel dirty and sick. No idea why.) I’ve decided where to go to school next year- I’m staying home and going to a local school, which feels a little like cheating, but they offered me lots of money, and who am I to turn down … well, a lot of money?

Also, I took my last AP Exams ever. So long, CollegeBoard. I’d say it’s been fun, but I’m ethically opposed to telling blatantly obvious lies. I took my college placement exams, and pretty much failed the Spanish one. (But you’d fail too, if you hadn’t looked at a language in three years. Or maybe you’re a super-genius who remembers everything you’ve ever done in great detail. Hey, I don’t judge.)

So I guess it’s back to regular web-life, now, isn’t it? Now that the insanity of graduation parties (about three a day, every weekend for the past three weeks- I swear it’s true), crazy violin committments (including the spring musical, for which I was the only violinist- that’s not supposed to happen, for those of you who don’t know anything about music/orchestration), and senior’s end-of-year celebrations (like the senior picnic- I climbed the Falls! No, you don’t need to know which falls.) has stopped, I can relax a bit. I finally have a spare moment to myself (although we all know that’s not why I stopped writing, don’t we?). You’ll be seeing more of me, I promise.

After the semi-crisis that was Version Two and a brief period of being in a creative coma, this is Version Three. I call it Version Three. (Before you make fun of me, you know how some mornings, your creative side just isn’t awake yet? This would be one of those mornings.) Alternatively, I suppose it could be called “What Would Happen if Version One and Version Two Produced Offspring.” Because it does look a little like that, even if I didn’t really mean for it to. That’s okay, though- I’m satisfied with this, at least for now…

In other less-blatantly-obvious news, I’ve tweaked the “About Me” page a bit, bringing it up to date (I’m no longer in anticipation of this year’s fall semester, for example) and played around with the site’s URLs so they actually make sense- now I have actual sub-folders and stuff like normal websites are supposed to have. (I think I missed that part in Website-Building 101. Actually, it may have something to do with the fact that I never took Website-Building 101.)

It still seems to me like people are disappearing from the internet. Every time I update my layout, I feel like there’s yet another dead link to remove from my “friends” list. And the process doesn’t get any more fun. I mean, I miss my friends, and I like having active blogs where I can comment. (Hint, hint- if you visit but don’t comment- or even if you’re a first time visitor- drop a comment! I like knowing who my visitors are and I like making friends even more!) I wish there was still that close-knit sort of feeling that there was when I was still part of the Warriors community.

Now, for the sake of length and interest, it’s time to introduce something completely unrelated. So a few months ago (or a year or so, I’ve lost track) my grandmother introduced a TV show to one of my cousins. Slowly, the TV show spread, and now my entire family (my extended family, that is) is pretty much hooked on this TV show. This TV show happens to be NCIS, which is pretty much awesome. And I don’t watch much TV, so that’s really saying something. Sadly, the individual who seems to be most addicted to this show is my sister. She literally will not shut up about it. It’s getting sort of irritating- two days ago, I bet her that she couldn’t go five minutes without mentioning NCIS. She scoffed at me- of course she could, she said. She couldn’t. Really, though, it is a good show. Does anyone else watch it?

Also related to television, last Sunday, because everyone was snowed in, all the Superbowl parties were canceled. So instead, my sister and I drove up the street to my friend’s house for a masculine Superbowl party. So my friend, her sister, my sister and I (all of whom, for the record, are female) partied like men, scarfed down an entire pan of brownies and a two-liter bottle of Coke, acted like we knew exactly what we were watching (okay, so now they’re lining up at the blue line, and now they threw it, and now they’re running and that guy just got tackled and HOLY CRUD did he just do a flip?!?! and…) and pretended to care about football. It was pretty fabulous. And that is my amazing snowed-in Superbowl story.