WARNING: If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment. I know that sounds a little mysterious - but it’s all I can say right now. — Max.

That is the cryptic warning a certain heroine named Maximum Ride gives right before the opening chapter of James Patterson’s novel, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment. But the intrigue doesn’t end there. In fact, the novel proved so engrossing that after stealing this book from my brother (ahem), I flipped to a random page in the middle, began reading, and couldn’t stop until I reached the back cover. Which is really something, since 1) I don’t usually begin reading a book from the middle unless I think it’s worthless, 2) this novel is written for middle schoolers, whereas I’m already a high school sophomore, and 3) I loved it so much, now I’m reading the first half.

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Meet Patsy, an extremely diligent and amicable 60GB external hard drive. For those of you who didn’t bother to read my earlier post, “My unfortunate circumstances,” she is my sole storage space and the solution to all of my computer woes. And my newest, bestest friend.

Since school’s already started for me, and my teachers are merciless when it comes to doling out homework, I apologize to all who are aware of the existence of this blog if I “vanish” for a while and neglect visiting your sites. Unfortunately, my GPA is higher up on my list of priorities than my social life on the Internet.

Yesterday, I was shocked to hear that my friend K-chan had been recently hospitalized after suffering a focal seizure. Her mother suggested that I give her a present to ease the boredom of being cooped up in a room all day, and the only thing I can think of at the moment is a car model kit (having previously constructed several Corvettes and Thunderbirds myself). But I daresay plastic cement would probably be a banned substance. T_T Ahhh, I hope you get well soon, K-chan! Life would be crap without you.