A Few Things

1. Recently, an anonymous viewer pointed out that the quote I use as my title, "There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate," was not by Charles Dickens but by a woman named Linda Grayson. So thanks, whoever you are. The reason I had attributed it to Dickens is because when I first started this blog, I checked Goodreads for inspirational quotes. At the time, someone had written that the quote was by Dickens, not Grayson. After a bit of research, I found various webpages that also claimed Dickens had written that line, and so I wrote that it was his quote on the top of my blog. However, this just shows how widely spread this misconception is. I haven't read all of Dickens' books, and neither have most other people, so I had no idea whether or not he had written it. Could he have? Sure. Either way, it's a pretty great quote, and so it's staying as part of the title of my blog.

2. I won't be posting as often here due to the issue of my little sister who is always on the computer, as well as to other things. But I have taken up the task of being one of several authors of the Wordpress blog The Adorkable Timelord (my penname is theresonatinglight) simply because it is way more accessible from my DROID RAZR than Blogger is.

3. I DO, however, have a review coming up for you. The book is Ugly To Start With by John M. Cummings; I haven't had the chance to start it yet (due mostly to the restraints of my limited computer time), but I'm really looking forward to reading it.

So overall, though I am not going to be posting nearly as often, I still will occasionally.

4. By the way, my robotics team did really great this year. We ranked among the top 40 in the world!

~Ellen

Why I Have Been Neglecting This Blog

Also: Why I Suck

To start off, I am really really sorry. I feel like such an awful person for just abandoning this like that.

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My List Of Reasons I Have Been Gone:

1. They say that sometimes "real life" gets in the way. That's sort of true in my case. But only if you stretch it. So let's break it down:

a. ROBOTICS. I love robotics. But it's very very time consuming. And as part of the non-tech sub-division (writing awards, writing letters, taking pictures, etc.), I guess I have to put a lot of myself into my work. So a lot of times, by the time I get home from school during the six week hell (not really. I love it.) that is the team's build season, it is around eight-thirty, and all I have energy to do is do homework.

b. That's another thing: homework. I have sort of a love-hate relationship with homework. I hate doing homework, but I spend hours on it every day, even when I really don't have to.

2. If you hadn't already noticed, I'm a bit of a workaholic. At any given time, I am most likely eating, sleeping, working, or procrastinating. So school and other things greatly decrease the amount of time I have for posting.

3. Every student at my school gets issued a Mac laptop at the beginning of the school year for educational usage. Obviously, students always find ways to use it for social purposes; my outlets were Google docs, which I used to communicate with my friends through, and Blogger. Unfortunately, around three months ago, Blogger was blocked because, I guess, they realized that too many kids were using it for non-educational purposes. So purely because I do all of my homework on my school laptop, I have not been going on Blogger.

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My List Of Reasons To Start Blogging Again:

1. I really love ranting.

2. I tried to keep a journal but I completely failed.

3. I missed this.

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To anybody who reads my blog: you're awesome.

To anybody who read my blog before this and continues reading it now: you are amazing. And also, I've kind of forgotten my formatting (plus, I'm typing this on my NEW PHONE that I got about a month ago, thr DROID RAZR. Yeah it's pretty cool.) so there will be a few changes.

Thanks. You guys rock. :)

~Ellen