Luke, I am... Your New Editor!

Note: This post was updated 9:48 PM to fix a formatting issue.

So, hi!

I am officially a contributor to this blog now. Unlike the two original contributors, I use my real name (if you thought Hamy and Mulan were real names, I have nothing else to say. Plus, I would never allow you to name my children, provided that I have some in the future).

For curious readers, I am not some random person an editor picked out from the masses of Internet users. In fact, I know both of the editors (one of them is a nice friend of mine). In addition, I have my own blog [if you don't like shameless advertising, I suggest you leave this page], Stiricide--and Other Things, which appears to have gathered a nice, small, but devoted, readership, probably because of the whimsical and humorous content I write. And, I reckon, partly due to some of the real, sober, tangents ("sober" and "tangent": two words that do not belong in the same sentence together).

Now, for some useful information: I attend the same school as Mulan, a "nerdy" school (call it what you want, haters. We know we're cool). I am in eighth grade, though I skipped seventh grade, and am in the "subbie", or, more eloquent, the "subfreshmen" class. I don't care to explain why this is (after all, it might help me explain if I understood this non-conventional title myself). Long story short, it's the grade level before freshman year.

As my Blogger profile explains, I am an "aspiring ecologist and journalist, and avid pianist, chess player, writer, and reader." Since this description is vague, I will clear things up: I wish to do something related to ecology as my chosen career path when the time comes for me to choose.

On the other hand, journalism is a budding hobby for me, one that I will (hopefully) be able to continue for a while. Currently, as a subbie, I have just written several articles as a "subbie contributor" (subbie contributor my life. These titles these days. A subbie contributor is someone that must ask the journalism teacher if they could have an article, and then wait awhiles for it to be published. Of course, I'm grateful for the chance, seeing as this new experiment was initiated just this year). Students are given the chance to join the official journalism course as a sophomore; of course, this means that I'll be better prepared when that time comes. As for the other things, they are my interests, that I explore when I have the time. I developed a strange love for piano playing several months ago, but now the interest is shifting towards writing prose and poetry.

I think I've said just enough so that you, dear reader, understand me, this random new contributor, a little better (but not enough so that you can stalk me. Luckily for me (though perhaps unluckily for you, you creep), I have no Facebook). As you might gather from this post, and others from Stiricide, this size is normal for me; be prepared to be hitting some real lengthy posts soon. In addition, as you might have observed from Stiricide (I have already hit the 55-post mark after just four-and-two-thirds months), I believe in quick updates, myself suffering the I-Want-An-Update disease from blog and Fanfiction browsing. Expect to see one or two posts per week here: however, my Stiricide update rate ranges from three to seven posts a week, so visit there if you want to read more blogging.

Valete, omnes! (That's Latin for "Goodbye, all!": I have been known on Stiricide to occasionally use the opening Salvete, omnes! and Valete, omnes!, as well as some other random Latin phrases. It's called I'm-Itching-to-Use-the-Foreign-Language-that-I'm-Learning-in-School Syndrome, contacted from studying a dead language.) I believe you readers will be getting acquainted with another editor soon as well.