Hello all! It absolutely pains me to say that it has been an entire MONTH since I have last posted on my blog *tears*, but I am back and utterly bursting with ideas for what is to come.
Life has this funny quality where it manages to snatch up all your time and suddenly you realize a month as gone by and no new content has been posted to your blog EEEEEK. Allow me to fill you in on the three things that contributed to my absence.
- THEATER. Ah yes, my excuse for just about everything. At the beginning of this month the final show for the 2015-2016 school year was put on at school and I had a lead role in it. So of course my time was spent going from school to food to homework to rehearsal and there wasn’t time for anything in between. And while I missed blogging and reading I had a fantastic time growing closer with my cast and in the end we put on a fabulous rendition of The Caucasian Chalk Circle. However, I was just cast in the first show of the year (for next school year) BUT I will be planning much more diligently for how time consuming rehearsals turned out to be 🙂
- BEA. I did it. I finally went. After years of wanting and wishing earlier this month my mom and I hoped on a plan to Chicago and spent three days surrounded by fellow book people. I don’t want to go into too much detail because there’s a recap post to come but I will say that it was beyond exciting to network with publicists and other bloggers in such a professional fashion! Additionally, I also had the pleasure of writing an article about BEA for my school’s newspaper and have spent the past couple weeks answering the questions prompted by it. We might get some new book converts yet! ;D
- Lastly, FINALS. As of yesterday I am no longer a sophomore in high school and I couldn’t be more excited. Evidently, with the end of the school year comes finals and the last two weeks have been jam packed with projects, tests, and exams. Of course, the three days I missed because of BEA didn’t help and I had a lot of makeup work I had to complete as well. But ALAS, the school year is over and I finally have time to do things like sit down and write this recap post, because I’m back, I promise.
While this hiatus was entirely unplanned and I do feel semi guilty about it, I’ve taken this past month to get every single other aspect of my life under control and now have a lot of time and energy to dedicate to blogging. This past school year ideas for posts and projects have been building up and I cannot wait to share them all with you. And of course, the books from BEA and sitting in a pile in my bedroom and are itching to be read. More on that coming soon.
All in all, I’m glad to be back! I hope you all have a wonderful start of summer, and I can’t wait to see what the warm months of the year will bring.
