Extreme Makeover: "Wired for Writing" Edition

As previous visitors to this blog have undoubtedly noticed, I've made some drastic changes to its appearance recently.  After using my own variations of a basic Blogger template for almost a year, I've decided to update my blog's layout with Blogger's new Template Designer feature.

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Template Designer comes preloaded with an assortment of layouts, background images, and color schemes.  While I would like to one day create my own images from scratch, for the time being, I'm content to work with what Blogger has given me.

Originally, I tried to find a background image that was directly related to writing, technology, or psychology, but I couldn't find one that really fit the tone and subject matter of this blog.  I like the energy of the current background image, and it coordinates nicely with the color scheme of my portfolio.

Looking for a job, taking a course in Social Psychology (fun stuff), and finishing up my graduate work have taken much of my time recently, hence the lack of blog posts in recent months.  But I do enjoy blogging (and writing, in general), so I will try to stop being an absentee blogger.  In fact, I have just written a post, which will be published later today after I proof it.

I really like what I've done with the place, but what do you think?  Leave some feedback below.