More Blog Changes?

I'm still not sure how satisfied I am with the design of this blog. I like it, but it just seems to be missing something that keeps it from being a "proper" blog. I know most professional blogs have a white background, but that just doesn't work well with my fonts. I also kind of want to change the blog title, but I don't know which way I want it.

As much as I enjoy working with HTML/CSS and picking out customizations, it would be so nice to have a professional design and tweak it for me, but those services are so expensive. It takes a lot of time to get these things done, and speech and debate is still crazy busy. This summer I'm definitely going to spend a lot of time working on this blog design. ◊