August starts with an A, too.

There are many things I should be blogging about today.

1. My trip to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studies in Orlando, Florida.
2. My summer.
3. Reasons why I have not been blogging.
4. Shark Week.

However, it is late and I shall only choose one for the sake of time. I obviously can't just jump into a recount of Harry Potter World because such astounding amounts of awesome cannot be typed up in less than ten minutes. Also, Shark Week is such a pivotal week in my life that it also deserves more than a few cursory sentences. My summer is almost over and a fair amount of events worth sharing have occurred so I don't think I should attempt a full summary in this rushed poster. And so that leaves No. 3 - Reasons why I have not been blogging.

I feel like this is such a cliche of a blog post. Return from long absence only to write a few quick, apologetic lines about why I was absent. But today is the beginning of a new month and a new blog every day challenge and so that is why I must do.

My reasons are as follows:
1. I have been keeping a journal by hand. My handwriting, especially my script, has improved greatly. I also write without editing, which is an interesting exercise. I can really just let my thoughts flow onto the page unfettered.
2. I have a new policy of only using the internet and my computer at the beginning and end to each day, which limits the time I have to devote to my online interests. Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and my e-mail have won the positions on the starting line up and as my time is now more limited (I am either rushing to get going with the day or fading fast into exhaustion at night), I rarely have time to do more than check in with the four main players. Any additional time I have for the internet has been either feeding my (now crippling) shopping addiction or taking care of important school/life responsibilities.
3. It has been a...summer of haziness and humidity. Meaning that, although many seemingly eventful things have transpired, I have been feeling tangled up in an odd mixture of emotions that I can't make much sense of, a situation that makes blogging difficult.


Oops. Really down to the last second here. End first BEDA post now.