title: Dork Diaries 3 1/2: How to Dork Your Diary
author:  Rachel Rene Russell 
description: Rachel Rene Russell is an attorney who prefers writing tween books to legal briefs. (Mainly because books are a lot more fun and pajamas and bunny slippers arent allowed in court.) Rachel lives in Chantilly, Virginia.
zlib_text: To the weirdos
  
  1
  
  Friday
  
  Dear Diary,
  
  It’s been a while. And because you’re back, because I brought you back (after
  spiraling your backbone back into place)—backity back back back—Aurelia, for
  some reason, feels like she needs to be introduced to you all over again. Like
  she don’t know you. Like she don’t remember you. But I do. So we don’t have to
  shake hands and do the whole “my name is” thing. But Aurelia might need to do
  that. Today she asked me if I still call you Diary, or if I call you Journal
  now. Or maybe Notebook. I told her Diary. I’ve always called you that. Because
  I like Diary. Notebook, no. And Dear Journal doesn’t really work the same.
  Doesn’t do it for me. Dear Diary is better, not just because of the double _D_
  alliteration action, but also because Diary reminds me of the name Darryl, so
  at least I feel like I’m talking to an actual someone. And Darryl reminds me
  of the word “dairy,” and “dairy” and “diary” are the same except for where _i_
  is. And I like dairy. At 