Transitions

So! After much deliberation and a slightly neurotic persistence to make a confident decision, I've decided to switch to Tumblr for the summer. As stated earlier, I'm fond of its very-photo oriented layout and endless themes to choose from, along with its simplicity. In short, this is basically a summer gift to myself (I only just re-remembered how exciting it is to create a new blog with a new username with a new start and a new design) and I'm not planning to abandon Blogger anytime soon.

What I couldn't figure out, though, was how to keep musings equally updated. I dug around to find that forwarding verbatim posts is more commonly known as spam (oops), so my solution will likely be a form of post redirection using screenshots and possible excerpts. I'm not sure if I'll stick to this, and how often I plan on doing this (perhaps weekly recaps?), so everything is malleable.

I'm super excited--hopefully this isn't "feeding my internet addiction," as someone dear to me noted, but rather a fun way to explore a different blogging website and to satisfy my fleeting design wants.

Thus, without further ado, my new blog (pristine at the moment!): packet.

(And let me tell you, it took forever to find a simple and unused one-word url username. Kind of really random.)

See you there! :)

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Psst...do you notice any design changes? I found a really interesting website, stiqr, that allows you to do easy edits. I'd still like to learn how to properly code (my Neopet homepage days are over and my knowledge then was scanty as is), but I think this is just such a great idea! I'm actually not sure if any of the things I added (image/link, especially the font, at the top and a fixed sidebar on the side) work on PCs, as it doesn't appear on my iPhone web browser either, but nonetheless, I'm a huge fan. And all right, that's all I have to say!

while i'm waiting,

I'm considering opening a Tumblr for ease of writing/styling. I love my Blogger and want to keep it and everything on it forever, but I just can't resist the endless, simple Tumblr themes that my current "carrier" lacks. Ah. Perhaps there's a way I can split up and redirect my blogs depending on what I'm using them for and when I'm using them? Like a seasonal thing, or annual thing, or stage-of-life (i.e. grade school, college, whatever comes after that) type of organization system? I'll have to look more into it, but as of now I am more than tempted.

routine

Fights always end in truce.

I swapped the pink color scheme for a green one...I'd like to learn and re-learn what I used to know about coding and someday make my own layout. Maybe even from scratch?

Now that school's done, I'm going to start cooking. Hopefully I'll document what chemical reactions occur on this page. I was thinking while catching up on one of my many overly-neglected Bloglovin' subs, that if I ever study abroad, I want to fully document it with photo and text. I'm thankful that this online journaling comes fairly naturally to me at this point. May it be useful in the future!

Sleep.

New!

Hehe, did you see my last post? I was trying the Blogger emailer, which for some reason I never found until some digging around in my French/study hall/TA class. Pretty convenient, although I wish there was an app...though using email to update is a reasonable alternative. And yes, I typed all that by hand...finger. It's my latest AP French composition, revised and turned in for a grade. Oh, Romance languages, how I wish I were eloquent in you.

I also finally updated the posting system. Haven't been behind the times or anything.

Besides blogging news and Bin Laden dead, AP week has struck and I'm scared out of my mind. I did manage to photograph all of my art pieces in the school gallery today, though there's a lot of actual creating to be done...along with ripping some of my canvases off of their frames. Sad day :(.

Nonetheless, I want to take a nap, so nap it is!

hum dee dum

Thinking about getting a Tumblr again. I had one a few years back but it hadn't hit off like crazy at the time and I was juggling something similar to six or seven social networking websites and so it went.

But it's just so easy...which might be a problem. Perhaps I'll revert to WordPress, my original conversion plan. I think I'd spend too much time (more than I already do) with blogs if I started a Tumblr? Anyhow I already have tweeting for minute networking :).

...I really shouldn't be thinking about any of this until after APs are over. Back to art!

grateful

1, 2, 3 :)

Too many things to praise the Lord about. Also too many things I still have to finish by tonight. I'm attempting a scholarship application for Berkeley...I wonder if I'll get accepted? Either way, the whole process of applying and selling oneself is intriguing and educational and I suppose the fact that my family has the means to pay for all those college applications and that I am eligible to apply for scholarships and that I have somehow taken on "leadership roles" in my few high school years to become an unconventional but fitting candidate for one or the other of the things I am working on; all this and more is something to be happy and thankful about.

Also, I find it difficult to keep up with an online blog and physical diary at the same time. Whenever I have a lapse in updating this thing, I'm usually committed to my Quo Vadis, and vice versa. I hope I can find a happy medium--both of these are useful and beyond helpful in documenting myself, I'm just not really sure which is best for what purpose.

Time to check up on my subscriptions, shower, write for my scholarship (bah), do statistics homework, study for physics...study some more for physics, and hopefully figure out how I'm going to complete both my AP portfolio and yearbook in time for the respective deadlines.

Ack.

day twenty

The meaning behind your blog name

Exactly what it says: musings. My musings.

GOING TO DO TWO OF THESE SINCE I WAS MEANING TO DO ONE "YESTERDAY" BUT I GOT HOME AT MIDNIGHT AHHH yay cheating on the challenge :)!

i wish

...that you could use Tumblr layouts on Blogger.

In all honesty, I probably spend more time reading Tumblr blogs (via Bloglovin') than I do Blogger ones. They're short and sweet; quick and to the point. And so absolutely aesthetically pleasing. I think that's why everyone likes them.

Including me. But I've had one in the past and eventually got rid of it when I decided that having a Twitter/Tumblr/Blogger/Xanga/whatever was too much...I think that's also when I got rid of all of those except my Blogger, which is pretty permanent seeing it's tied into my Gmail.

But the good thing about having a Blogger is that they're less popular among people my age, and so I doubt many read it. And so I can spend more time actually recording my thoughts rather than pleasing an audience, which is what Xanga turned into. eProps and all.

I also believe the size of my text is too small for people to easily skim unless they really want to read what I'm writing about. But it looks better this way. No harm in being an extra safety precaution though, eh?

Good stuff.

Okay I'm going to sleep...soon. I want to finish the book I've been reading, A Rope and A Prayer, but I am actually pretty sleepy and don't want to screw over my sleep schedule over one snow day. I didn't nap at all today even though we pretty much had the day off :(.

RIGHT. To bed!

fresh

I'm seriously considering starting a food blog. How much fun would that be??? I don't cook, but I love eating. I think it would work out. The problem is maintaining something like that...I've been slowing down with blog entries ever since I quit Xanga, which is a blessing in disguise (I thought about this on the car; writing blogs and editing them and taking care of a personal page uses a lot of time. Not that I didn't know this, but it recently became so much more blatant to me), so the chances that I would keep up with a food blog are slim to none. However, it wouldn't be so demanding and need not be updated on a very regular basis...and I also have many, many old photos I could work with as filler entries?

But then, if a food blog, I'm going to want to start all kinds of other random category-specific blogs. I originally ignored the idea (I wanted to start a clothing-record type thing for myself) because I wear a uniform to school and wouldn't have much to work with for a fashion blog, a long-time thought of mine...so what would stop me if I started a food blog? And then I'll find myself lost in a sea of blogs again, which I desperately want to avoid :(.

I also want to try out Wordpress. Secretly. I am very satisfied with Blogger, however...but I like Wordpress' layout and it is simply more aesthetically attractive to me. But Blogger = Google and I have loyalty issues. And subscriptions here. I need to catch up on all my subscriptions...