Gretch-a-sketch (old)

From: Blog Headquarters
To: My fabulous readers
Date: July 13, 2008
Time: 6:00 PM

Subject: Sometimes change is a good thing

Dear readers,

This is a big week for me.

Monday: Neuroscience presentation, Bastille Day
Tuesday: The premiere of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Wednesday: Final neuro paper due
Thursday: New Office webisode, Abnormal Psych final, Ethics paper due (or is that Friday? I'd better find out so I can know how long to procrastinate.)
Friday: The Dark Knight! Mamma Mia! ... Oh yeah, and graduation, I guess.
Saturday: Drive home for good!

But unlike last semester, this isn't my notice that I'm disappearing from the blogging world for a week. Actually, I've got some really fun stuff planned, especially tomorrow. You'll see. ;)

Vague promises aside, this is just to inform you of a few things going on here at Gretch-a-sketch. You might remember that a while back I considered making the switch to wordpress. I gave that a shot, even going so far as to make a really spiffy new header and everything. I liked most of the features, but for the time being I'm going to stick with blogger.

Therefore, I've made a few changes to the site to make it more appealing and user-friendly. It's now three-columns and there's also a slightly altered color palette. I've added links on the left for all the important stuff, including a new About page and Links page. The links list was highly laborious, but worth it. There is some true quality contained in that page. Now you can see just why the internet makes me so un-productive. Also, I updated my blog roll. It's insanely long, but if I left you off, please let me know and I'll add you! Seriously, praises be to Google Reader for allowing me to keep up with you. I deleted the Navigation Bar at the top and added a search form on the left side. There's still tweaking to be done, but that's the brunt of it.

Lastly, I'm going on vacation from the 23rd to the 30th. I wish I could say that meant I was going to either BlogHer or ComicCon (I'm not really picky), but I'll be at the OPPOSITE END OF THE COUNTRY. Ohio and upstate New York, to be exact. I'm really quite thrilled. Honest! I bet you can guess where this is going... If you're interested in guest blogging, either leave me a comment or shoot me an email at lady.luck.05(@)gmail.com. Help a sister out? Pretty please? I'll bring back souvenirs for you!

I think that about wraps it up--back to our regularly scheduled discussion of random lists, awesome media, and why Jim Halpert looks good in sweaters.

Best,
Blog HQ