I'm back!  I'm aliiiiiiive!  You can tell I'm (mostly) healthy again because I am no longer choosing sleep over television, so all is right with the world.  ;-)

Hello lovely readers!

Tragically, I am WAY too sick to post a real blog today.  The dread illness I felt coming on last week HAS ARRIVED.  I feel like someone has hoovered the brains out of my head and replaced them with wet angry seagulls.  BOO.  Also, my knees hurt.  Diagnose THAT, Dr. House!

Hi everyone!

If you're anywhere near Wyckoff this Thursday and you want to talk about Avatars 1, come to the library for the teen book discussion!  I'm going to be there!  Hooray!  I'm totally excited, because this was just a strange magical coincidence that turned out to be perfect. 

Check it out!:

A very thrilling week is upon us!  First of all, Happy Valentine's Day!  Yay!  I've always liked Valentine's Day (I know, shocking -- as if I was suddenly going to have a dark side about that!), mainly because I think it's a fun opportunity to let people know you like them -- not only romantically, but maybe just because you think they're totally awesome.

Hi all!

I have deadlines aplenty this week (plus like forty things I want to write that don't even have deadlines, which is dangerous because that makes them easier to put off but I want to write them so much! I just need to make myself do it), SO...it's a short blog today!

Mainly to say I'm excited about the Newbery winner, because I read it about two weeks before the Newbery was announced, and it's totally awesome.

As promised:

We're in Delhi!  Woo hoo!

Hi hi hi!!!

I like how last week I was all: "next week I'll post more India pictures (unless something dramatic happens that I need to write about instead)", completely forgetting THE MOST DRAMATIC THING EVER, scheduled for today, which is to say: AWESOME HISTORY BEING MADE AWESOMELY.

Hi everyone!

What are you doing for Valentine's Day?  I know, it's a month away, but there is an exciting event happening, so I wanted to let you know about it now so you can plan and get excited and stuff.  :-)

Hey, here's a fun quiz.  :-)  Turns out I'm a Traveling Extroverted Self-Knower.  Neat!  I also learned via this quiz that my sister has done some fun things without me, such as "jump off a cliff into water" and "go on a road trip with no predetermined destination".  What!  Fun without ME!  No fair!  (I blame her Cool and Adventurous Friend Rachel.  She's suspiciously fun.) 

Hi everyone!

Here's a belated Chrismukkah present for you all:

It's snowing!  Yay pretty snow!  This is both good and bad news.  Good news because, well, snow is pretty.  Bad news, because Sunshine LOVES IT.  LOOOOOOOOOVES IT!  Loves snow MADLY!  Wants to dash up and down the yard like a hyper-crazy snow princess!

Hello lovely people!

We have two weeks until Christmas!  Are you all ready or are you panicking?  Have you purchased presents galore?  I...have not.  Yet!  But I'm thinking about it.  And you know what's always a wonderful present?  BOOKS!

The Amber Fort in Jaipur!

Verdict:  AWESOME.

I know it seems like all the news is gloomy right now, but I figure that's what holidays like Thanksgiving are for -- to make us stop and think, well, what's the good news?  What about all the things that make us happy?

For instance, I am thankful for: