Except not. I tried to rewrite my template from scratch, thinking it would be fun. And it would have been.. I just don't have the time to learn all of this extra stuff on top of everything else I'm trying to get done. Then I realized blogger provides templates for a reason - other people doing work that I can mooch off of so I don't have to do as much. It's what they're teaching me in my CSE curriculum anyway - the best programmers are the laziest ones.
This will have to do for now.