A new year, and back to blogging!

Hi, everyone! I hope you all have had a wonderful few months away from school (Unless you’re in the southern hemisphere… If you are, hi!) It’s been a long and eventful summer, but tomorrow, we will be returning to school. Some of us for the last year. That’s a little scary.

So sorry about all the absences and discrepancies last year, but now I’m back, and (hopefully) better than ever. I have some new rules this year, to make sure that I maximize my energy and don’t drop off the face of Blogspot for two months, like I did last year.

NEW RULES OF OBSERVING:

1. Do not update every day. Only 2 or 3 times a week. (Updating every day can become exhausting, and can also interfere with schoolwork and college applications and such.)

2. The day’s schoolwork and college application work should ALWAYS be finished before work on the day’s blog.

3. In most classes, there will be non-assigned seating. Arrive early to class to claim an appropriate seat—probably near the middle or the back, where you have a good view of everyone in the class, but also where you have a good view of the board and the teacher.

4. Keep all school notes and observing notes in the same notebook. It’s much simpler that way—less distracting, and relatively inconspicuous.

5. As per usual, no blogging about close friends.

6. However tempting it may be, do not mesh two or more people together into one “character” for a blog. They may seem similar enough, but each person is their own person, and they deserve to be acknowledged as such.

So, here’s to a new school year! Hoping it’s a great one for us all! And it goes without saying, but thank you so much to everyone who reads this blog. It means a lot to me. And as usual, always feel free to share your own observances of your own classmates in the comments. No matter how short or long, I love to read them.

Sincerely,
Your Faithful Observer