® First Impression: I must admit, I came to your diary, and I felt like I wanted to read it. I don’t remember what the first entry was, but I know I’ve been to your diary before sitting down to review it, before you even requested. I wanted to read your diary, because I felt like I had some connection to your words. I felt like I understood what you were saying on the index page and that I could relate to it somehow. My first impression of the layout is that it’s plain, but it looks rather functional. Classy, I guess. (4/5)

® Username and Title: I’m neutral to your username. I don’t really have anything particularly constructive or witty to say about it. It’s a username. It doesn’t have any numbers, it isn’t spelled wrong, I mean, it’s a good name I guess. It’s a statement, there’s always more to know. I’m guessing I’m learning more about you with every entry. I guess I could handle that. Your title bugs me, it reminds me of a shampoo bottle. I think you could do better. (4/5)

® Content:
Selection of Content: It’s taken me quite some time to finally settle down to dig into your diary and write this review, and for that, I whole heartedly apologize. It always sets some kind of tone for the review I’m writing when it’s taken me weeks to write it. It’s not that I found your diary boring or anything like that, it’s just not what I needed to be reading at this point in my life. I found myself in a lot of your entries, I found parts of me that I didn’t really want to pay attention to, listen to, or dwell on. I’m at a point in my life where reading anything that reminds me of myself makes me break down. I’d say that your writing had a really big effect on my stupid little head. Or maybe it was because I was listening to Ace of Base while writing this review. It seems to go so well with your diary. I found that most of your entries were you reflecting on your life, things that have happened to you. You’re just musing over the meaning of things you’ve done, how you’ve been shaped into the human you are. I have to say flat out that I enjoyed the entries where you were more daylogging than the entries where you were waxing over your childhood and your friendships. It’s fantastic that you’re finding yourself, and I really could see that you’re a brilliant writer. Much like all other teenage girls that you actually talk about in one entry, I can relate to your relationship with Gabe. I recently broke up with a boyfriend to date my best friend after a year of cheating on him. He dumped me a week later because he didn’t love me that way anymore. I felt like we were dealing with kind of the same thing, even though you’re year older than me. I really feel like your diary is something I’d like to read every day, but then part of me isn’t sure. You’re a fantastic writer, don’t let anyone tell you differently, but I don’t know if there was enough connection for me to fall in love with what you were writing. I felt as though you were writing for yourself so much that it was hard to want to come back to read more. [13/15]
Emotion: You’re brilliant at expressing yourself. You trailed off in a few entries, but most of the time I was sitting here blubbering over how great you are at thinking about yourself and expressing how you feel about things. It seems like you have an endless expanse of things to talk about, and I loved that about your diary. You never held anything back, and even if you don’t feel like you’re being yourself here, I’d like to know what yourself is. Plus, your poetry isn’t bad. [9/10]
Vividness of Detail: Most of the time I knew what you were talking about, and you described it well enough that I could relate to what you were saying and get visions in my head. [5/5]
(27/30)

® Layout: It grew on me, I guess. I could tell it was a Migrane design. I love that it’s a picture of your home town, because I’m in love with love of home towns. The words on it are your own, it’s personal, it’s great. I don’t really think the words you chose are that great compared to some of the other things I’ve read by you, but they make sense with your diary and personality. It’s a pretty picture. The colors are subdued and classic. I have to say I wouldn’t really connect these colors to your writing, though. (17/20)

® Organization: Your thoughts make sense, and all of the extras pages and things in your diary are very well organized. You even have entries that you think are important for your diary with links to the next one within them! Wow. That’s really organized. The navigation itself is even organized into it’s own areas. Absolutely every single page is VERY organized. It’s LOVELY. (7/5)

® Grammar and Links: Your links are all in working order, and your grammar is very, very good. You don’t disappoint in this area. (10/10)

® Contact: It has its own little area! Yes, there are notes, e-mail, AIM, a guestbook, and comments at the bottom of every entry. (5/5)

® Extras: Everything is once again, very organized. I appreciate the extensive “about me” page you’ve constructed there. Your CD reviews were fun to read, too, even though I only have five of the CD’s you’ve reviewed. Hehe. (5/5)

® Navigation: Your diary is very easy to navigate! It bothered me that the “photography” was under “Literature.” I’m so anal like that. Other than that, navigation was fantastic. (5/5)

® Updates: It appears as though you don’t really update that much, but also that you’ve had this diary for a long time, so it balances out. Your entries are all full of substance, which is greatly appreciated. (5/5)

® Lasting Impression: I’m still trying to figure out if I’m going to come back. (3/5)

® Total: (92/100)

® Comments: You’ve tied for the highest score ever. Welcome to the hall of fame. You can take a button, if you want.

® Reviewed By: Audrey

Reviewed on 2004-07-15 at 11:50 p.m.!