A Terrible, Awful Thing + Updates

Hello, lovelies!

Guess who didn't blog the entire month of August?

Oops! I was feeling very unmotivated and blah this August, and I prefer do quality over quantity. But I'm feeling a wee bit more inspired now, and I have some post ideas ready to roll.

Anyway, first things first, I start school up again tomorrow. (Which is also not ideal.) Junior year, baby! I took care of the picture taking and all that jazz today, and got the good ol' laptop back in my hands. HOWEVER. I have run into an issue. The little USB thing that I've been saving files to since middle school has ceased to function.

This means that everything on it, including old photos, school projects that I like to reminisce about (because my voice in recordings is hilarious to me), AND every single short story/unfinished novels I've been working on are gone. Unless there's some way to recover data off of a botched USB, I can't get those things back. And I'm a very sentimental hoarder. It makes me so sad to lose of all those old things that I've had for years. The worst part is that I'm pretty sure I'm the one who broke it by accident. When I was last saving things to it, I'm guessing somehow I bumped it and scratched the surface of the part that goes into my computer, damaging it beyond the point where a computer could still recover the data. To say the least, this is not how I wanted my day to go. If you have any ideas of how to still save the little tidbits that are on my USB, please leave a comment. Else I might have to just go cry in sadness over losing pictures of myself wearing a matching fuzzy pink pair of sweatpants and sweatshirt.

On to other topics, either today or tomorrow I'm going to be updating my blog design, which is always a fun time. I'm thinking of going with more of a fall theme, but I'm very excited to give this blog a new little color palette. So get pumped!

Also, I don't know if all of you will remember, but last year I did a little guest post series called Guestober (which is  a little mashup of "Guest" and "October" if you're wondering. Guest being my guest posters, and October being the month this took place). Basically that consisted of me gathering up a group of bloggers and having a new person write a guest post for my blog every week. Well, unfortunately, this year Guestober is not going to happen. I didn't have enough time to round up enough people, and at this point, it wouldn't be fair to my guests to push them into getting a post up for me within a month or so since inspiration is a wily little gremlin, and you can't force genius. So there will be no Guestober this year, and I'm a little sad, since I have met a bunch of new lovely people who I'd love to have post.

The Guestober thing COULD change, if a bunch of you are really excited about it and a bunch of you are also willing to come up with a post short notice for me, but that's a lot of if's, so don't bank on it.

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Well now that I've gotten that all out of my system, I have a question for you. What kind of posts that I do are your favorite? Do you prefer bookish posts, like my From the Bookshelf posts where I tell you the books I've been reading recently? Do you like the posts where I do #AskSeana? Or are you more into tags/award posts? Those are just examples of course, I'm sure some of you just like my little life updates and list-filled posts. Leave me a comment, because I'd love to know. (:

That is all.

Cheers,

Sea