Layout: [ 19/25 ]

I like the picture, very calming. The design is from www.kativy.net and is one of the nicer I’ve seen. However, the navy blue font colour you’ve chosen becomes almost completely obliterated on the right side due to the blue-green pattern. Makes it kinda hard to read.. which kind of defeats the purpose of why you’re doing this thang.. right? As well, I like the amount of stuff you had linkage wise and I respect your decision to place things pertaining to your love of space/Columbia tribute on your main page, it gets lost on your page. Other than that, though, it was nice to look at.

Content: [ 47/60 ]

You seem like a lovely girl. I? Am not a lovely girl. This resulted in sort of a weird comprehension problem when it came to reading your diary. 50 entries later and I’m not sure what to think of you. Do people still say “oh my goodness”? I kept getting that Tom Petty lyric in my head when I read you: “She's a good girl, loves her mama/Loves Jesus and America too”. But that’s just me. I got a lot of heart in your entries but the best ones were where you just let it pour out of you. And you can tell the difference. Sometimes it seemed kind of pre-planned like when you talk about funeral homes in the middle of your entry about your dreams of becoming an astronaut. I actually did the cartoony scratch-your-head-while you’re-thinking move when reading your stuff. ‘Course, I might have a severe case of lice but let’s just say it’s because you made me think. That being said, though, you did draw me in. You’ve been around a while, kid, and your continuing commitment to your diary makes me feel as though I do know something about you. So even though there is a distressing (refreshing?) lack of cynicism and cursing in your diary, I still liked you. And coming from a bitter broken-down harpy like myself, that’s saying something.

Errors: [ 4/5 ]

You have a ‘double entry’ for the 20th of february and your first 2 ‘older’ page links all go to the same number of entries which makes it kind of hard to navigate.

Contact: [ 2/2 ]

Email, guestbook. Good enough.

Bonus: [ 7 ]

Yow. Za. Guestmap, dream analysis, quizzes, comrades, links to your other diaries, bio, cast list. Whew!

Word of advice:

You can’t go wrong cutting down on exclamation points. As well, you could move your space info to another page, with a button or link to it on your main page. The aforementioned problem with reading the text might spur you to do something, too.

Favourite Quotes:

My Valentine's Day, well, for lack of any better word, sucked. Really, really, really sucked. I wore a rather scandalous mauve sweater with a low neck, and that made me feel at least a little bit in the spirit.

I have a new motto : Trust No one ; Suspect Everyone. No, this is not a lighthearted attempt at humor.

I can't even quit properly.

Best Entries:

Being a theatre major myself, I could relate to this entry and it did make me smile. And while I usually despise ‘day-to-day’ entries you had me hangin’ on tight with some of them. And this was a rather ambitious goal. Hope it worked out for you.

Additional Comments:

You know, you won me over. I tend to read a certain kind of diary and yours isn’t it. But maybe the world needs more people like you to balance out all the nasty ones like me. I think you’ve got a better grip on how to write than you did 2 or 3 years ago and your style is much more pleasant to read. Keep the ‘I don’t even know why I’m writing this boring entry’ entries to a minimum and you’re in like Flynn.

Will I be coming back? [ 6/8 ]

Not entirely sure if I’ll stay, but for now, I’ll say: yeah. I’ll probably be back.

Total: [ 85/100 ]

Reviewed by: Trasker