MOVING DAY 
Here is the announcement that nobody has been expecting or dreading, but I'm going to make it anyway:
I'm retiring this xanga. I've been using this blog for over
5 years...!
[Although I did delete the entries from the first few years.] My online thoughts will be moving over to Wordpress:
auradis.wordpress.comI've been considering a move for a while now but didn't actually get around to it until I was stuck at a desk for 6 hours last week answering a phone that only rang 4 times. Looots of free time.
Why "auradis"? Well, I came up with it senior year for a French story that we had to make up. I mashed together my first name and the word "paradise" and lopped off the first and last letters. It sounds French, does it not?
I decided to use
Wordpress because it seems to be a more mature...place? Publishing site? Also, the newspaper that I'm working for uses it for its blogs, so it's pretty legitimate. I decided against
Blogspot because I although I already had one, I never used it. The style just didn't appeal to me. And I've never really liked
Livejournal.
Wordpress' dashboard is more technical, and there just seem to be more successful blogs on it than Xanga. There are disadvantages as well, of course. Wordpress is anal about its templates and makes it very difficult to customize the appearance of one's blog. Even changing the font size and color is a hassle that I haven't figured out how to work yet.
I'll probably still hang out at xanga to read my subscriptions and such, but consider this my fond farewell.
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