Well, “better than ever” is probably a little too ambitious, but I can always hope, right?

I’m back from my short hiatus! I did a lot of thinking about the formatting of this blog and I’ve decided on a few things:

• I’m changing the format of my reviews. The current format of summary, initial reaction, final reaction, and overall rating isn’t doing it for me anymore. Frankly, there are far better and comprehensive reviews of popular movies and TV shows out there, and they weren’t fun to write anymore. Instead, I’m going to have a short summary, five adjectives I would use to describe my reaction, most and least impressive (no more than a sentence or two), and then overall rating. It’ll be shorter, far more concise, and most likely spoiler-free.
• Interviews will be put on an indefinite hiatus. I have loved conducting all of the interviews that have been posted, but lately, my heart just hasn’t been into coming up with questions for each interviewee. I figure that for now, I’ll put interviews on hold. In the future, if I am interested in doing interviews again, I will contact the remaining people who have expressed interest in being interviewed but have yet to receive questions. If there is still interest in the interviews then, I will start them up again. For now, though, there aren’t going to be any interviews anytime soon.
• Wednesdays will now be used to talk about all things related to my personal ventures into arts and crafts. Since the opening of my Etsy shop, I’ve been spending most of my free time either making crafts or looking into new crafting ideas I can try my hand at. I’ll essentially be using Wednesdays to promote my Etsy shop and getting the word out about its existence, as well as showcasing individual crafting projects I’m working on, both personal projects and those related to the shop.

Things will go back to normal around here with these new changes starting tomorrow!

Cross-posted from breakthesky.net. Please leave any comments there.

These interviews started with the intention of getting to know my online friends better, and exposing a side of them that might not necessarily be apparent online. Each interviewee was asked ten questions, five of which were generic, and five of which directly applied to the specific individual. If you are interested in being interviewed, please leave a comment on this post.

Interview with Krissy of girldisappearing.org:

• Do your friends and family know you have a blog? If so, do they read it?
  No, they don’t. A few years ago, my friends knew I had livejournal (a few of them did, too) and we read each others, but aside from that, they don’t know about any of my current online escapades. As for family, I know my mom knows I have a domain, but I never talk about it, nor have I ever told her what it was (and I don’t plan to).

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These interviews started with the intention of getting to know my online friends better, and exposing a side of them that might not necessarily be apparent online. Each interviewee was asked ten questions, five of which were generic, and five of which directly applied to the specific individual. If you are interested in being interviewed, please leave a comment on this post.

Interview with Carmen of carmabelle.com:

• Do your friends and family know you have a blog? If so, do they read it?
  My parents - definitely not. Friends and other family have stumbled upon it because I’ve linked it on my Facebook profile, but I’m not sure if they’re regular readers.
• When did you first start becoming involved in the “internet world”?
  When I was about fourteen or fifteen. My friend Leona got me onto blend challenges - mine were really, really bad to start with, as you might imagine. I was hosted by Leona for a while, before I opened my first site, stupidloveletters.com, and I’ve beeen on-and-off ever since!

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These interviews started with the intention of getting to know my online friends better, and exposing a side of them that might not necessarily be apparent online. Each interviewee was asked ten questions, five of which were generic, and five of which directly applied to the specific individual. If you are interested in being interviewed, please leave a comment on this post.

Interview with Mellissa of v.eracio.us:

• Do your friends and family know you have a blog? If so, do they read it?
  Most of them do because of Facebook and such (especially friends I’ve made through the internet), and, yes they do read it!
• When did you first start becoming involved in the “internet world”?
  I’ve been online on and off since 1998-1999. I’ve only recently picked up blogging again at the beginning of the year. I used to blog previously but it always just kept being very short-term.

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These interviews started with the intention of getting to know my online friends better, and exposing a side of them that might not necessarily be apparent online. Each interviewee was asked ten questions, five of which were generic, and five of which directly applied to the specific individual. If you are interested in being interviewed, please leave a comment on this post.

Interview with Olga of gloryfades.org:

• Do your friends and family know you have a blog? If so, do they read it?
  In short, yes. While there’s a part of me that desires anonymity on the Internet, I’ve never been one to hide my blog from those who ask. In fact, I briefly had the link up on my Facebook, but took it down recently. I’m not ready for all of my old friends to read it. My sister, Sister Friend for those who read my blog, reads it fairly often. She usually brings up what I write into conversation so I get the feeling it’s a daily check for her. And my mother (51)? Well, it’s in her Firefox address bar. Hi, mom!

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