~*~Username and Title:The "Just me" part is rather cute, but I have an intense and passionate hatred for usernames involving numbers. They irritate me and fairly screech "IMMATURE TEENAGER ON THE LOOSE." The title I'm neutral about. I certainly hope you're you.-1/5.

~*~Thoughts While The Page Was Loading:Hmm...I wish I could have seen one of your many other layouts that you mentioned. I'm not wild about this one. The khaki color is one my boyfriend would love--but I would, and do, hate.-1/5.

The Starlit-Lily Factor:

~*~Does Your Soul Shine Through?Hmm. Yes, I'd say so. You're very clearly a young girl who wants to fit in, and unfortunately, is very heavily wrapped up in the godawful politics of middle school. You're refreshingly out there and open about how you feel about things, but you also seem quite cursed by general ambivalence and a certain lack of depth of understanding of how things work. I can't hold that against you, though--you're thirteen. And having been thirteen once myself, I have a very deep sympathy for you.-32/35.

~*~Are You Observant Of Beauty?...No, sadly. There are a few little things scattered in your entries, but mostly, you haven't quite gotten the window on your day-to-day life unshuttered to look outside. You see the beauty in people sometimes, and in very sweet, tender moments with people--which I love reading about; they make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside--but, you miss out on deeper, more spiritual things, a lot of the time. This, unfortunately, I do have to hold against you because it's entirely possible for middle-school students to look beyond. Open your eyes a bit, Rachel--there's so much more than stupid middle-school boys and self-absorbed "friends" out there. The points you're receiving are for those sweet moments you describe in some of your entries, and for your ability to describe things. -15/35.

Layout:

I like the organization of this layout. The entry box is beautifully sized, though the font is small--in truth, after reading your diary all afternoon, my head is now hurting a bit, though I'm not holding that against you--and the links are very neat and well-organized. However...I loathe that khaki color. It's really and truly ugly to me, and there's a cursed amount of it--I was hoping very hard that there would be an image in that big blank space to the right. No? Awww. The little image at the top of the entry box, while somewhat ambiguous, is rather lovely. But all in all--I reallywish I could've seen one of the others.-11/20.

Navigation:

The navigation is pretty good. I wish you'd capitalize the link faces--a weird little pet peeve of mine; if I ever become a good enough at HTML to open up a design site, all my link faces will be capitalized and there will be a Wall of Shame just FOR those people who change them to lower-case. Yes, I'm that picky about it. However, I'm not going to murder you for it.-6/10.

Content:

~*~Your Content:I read from the first entry until September twenty-second, then I skipped to where you stopped archiving at the beginning of February, and read to the index, because...I've been reading for several hours already. That being said...

I should thank Goddess every single day that I'm not thirteen anymore. The drama, the drama! And there is an awful lot of drama in your diary. That's not really a problem I have with your diary or anything; it's your diary, as you stated in your disclaimer, and you should write whatever you want. Really! I encourage it.

However...it got tiresome after all while. I felt sorry for you mostly, having to deal with basically stupid boys, with friends who can't seem to stick by you--I agree with one of your earlier entries, you need better friends--but honestly, there's a lot more to life than whether or not Trevor is dating you, or dating someone else. You're very likely not in love with anyone, you're just hopelessly infatuated--real love doesn't lend itself to drama. (One of the many lessons real life will be forcing down your throat as time goes on.) And really--why does it matter? You're Rachel whether or not you have a boyfriend, or a best friend. I would dearly love to see you learning some independence--I imagine high school will help you a bit. Middle school is rough all around, isn't it?

You're an entertaining writer, and rather an intelligent one. I can see why you'd love English and Literature; you have a lovely vocabulary in comparison to most thirteen-year-olds, and you write with a nice modicum of sense--also with fairly good grammar and spelling. Your poetry is beautiful. I would love to see how you develop as a writer as you grow older. I think you're often very funny without realizing it--none of your entries really strike me as being intentionally funny--to be specific, you don't seem to be writing to amuse anyone but yourself. I love seeing that in a person's diary, where there are no "shout-outs" or anything like that. You write like you're simply conversing with yourself, and that's always inevitably pretty funny. Kudos for keeping me so well-entertained--ah, to be thirteen again...I hope it never happens...

All in all, you're, as far as I can tell, basically a sweet girl, and an intelligent one, with some growing-up to do. I'm not holding your lack of maturity against you--it's very hard to be truly mature at thirteen, and often that "maturity" is a pseudo-maturity, basically a camoflauged pomposity and arrogance. There's none of that in you, Rachel--I like that.-65/70.

~*~Your Grammar and Spelling:Meh. I've seen better, but you write with sense. I saw nothing that made me want to kill you.-6/10.

Extras:
Quite a few! My Goddess, I spent nearly an hour in your Extras!-15/10.

Will I Return?

Hmm...possibly.

Comments:

Good luck with the rest of middle school--high school will be better, I promise. If nothing else, you'll have more freedom, and more fun. And one more thing--if you're upset by your score on this review, which I hope you're not, keep in mind that I am a tough scorer.

And finally...I would love to call of your review sites an affiliate. So long as it's not Wallflower Reviews.

Total:152/200.

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