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Minerva the Bookwyrm Crew
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 Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:26 am
Vote for you fave entry in the Snape Fan Fic Contest
and enter the new HP Limerick Contest!
I've also awarded the House Cup for 2009 (finally! Congrats Gryffindor!) and announced the top point-earners from each House. However, you'll have to wait until LadyHealingHands gets on Gaia to issue the prizes since I can't access Accio Funds.
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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 3:55 pm
Right now, I'm procrastinating on homework. I'm really good at that. I know it's a bad habit, and I'm trying to break it, but so far, it's not really working.
On Friday, my school only had two hours of school because our girls' varsity basketball team made it to the Final Four. So they let us out early so anyone who wanted to go to the game could. I ended up going to my friend's house with a couple of my other friends and we made butterbeer and watched the Lion King instead of watching the game. I must say, it was quite enjoyable. Unfortunately, we got fourth place, meaning the girls lost both games they played.
Minerva: I love your avatar! It's very spirited.
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Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 2:14 pm
Hello everyone. It's been a while since I've lurked on Gaia.
Nothing's really happened here. Except I'm so sick of snow that it's not even funny. It's been snowing constantly for a week now. And the weather report say that it's gonna snow for yet another week.
Whoopie-doo.
We have to shuffle snow everyday. Not fun.
It has snowed more than 3 feet.
I shuffled the snow off the stairs one day, the next day, I had to walk down said stairs with snow up to my legs.
If I feel like it, I'll take a picture tomorrow or something.
There's never been so much snow at once in my entire life.
Also, last month, the lower appartment that my grandma is renting out at her house was flooded. Twice. Then her garage was flooded.
They had to dig up around her house. And the bill is almost at 200 000 kr, which is about 40 000 dollars. Thankfully, her insurance will cover some of it. ,
Damned weather.
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 10:39 am
Kitsune: Wow. That's a lot of snow. All the snow has melted where I live. And it's been raining for the past 5 days straight. Although they're saying the rain might turn to snow next week over Spring Break sad
Happy PI day!!!!
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 4:14 pm
I might take a picture tomorrow. If I remember that is.
We don't have Spring Break. But we had winter break a couple of weeks ago, and we'll have Easter Break soon. whee Easter means marzipan and those really yummy chocolate easter-eggs we have here with some white chocolate goodness inside it.
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 6:28 pm
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Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:10 pm
We don't really have an Easter break in my school district. Our spring break is always the last full week of March, and then for Easter, we have 5 hour days on Wednesday and Thursday, and no school on Good Friday, then we go back to school the day after Easter. As for our winter break, it's always built around Christmas and New Years. Then of course there's our summer break. So far, I'm enjoying my spring break. It's been busy-I haven't really been home a lot because I had a lot going on at my church over the weekend.
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Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:35 am
How come Spring Break goes so fast?
I'm already back at school. Three of my days were eaten up by the need to watch my nieces and nephew, four more by work and homework and church, leaving me two days to spend with my best friend, and it's gone. Why does time have to move so quickly on the breaks yet drag through the entire class period?
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Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:30 pm
Matelia: I ask myself that every time winter or spring break rolls around. Although, sometimes I want school to start after summer break because three months is a long time for me to be off.
As for my spring break, I spent Friday after school at my church doing Living Stations of the Cross, on Saturday, I had dance and then a senior citizens dinner at my church that I had to work. Sunday was a lazy day. I basically just stayed home and watched a marathon of How the Earth was Made and my friend came over. I slept over at my friend's house last night, and I might go with her to look at Notre Dame tomorrow. Other than that, I've had a lovely spring break. But I agree, it definitely has gone by too fast.
Today, I went to Borders. I wasn't planning on buying anything, and then my mom told me she had a Borders gift card with $35 dollars on it, so I bought four books- A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Kite Runner, Anastasia's Secret, and A True Love (which is actually three books in one). I was excited because I haven't bought any new books in awhile though I have a "Books I Want to Read" list that's about ten miles long. And now I think I'm rambling...
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Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:11 pm
I havent had spring break yet and yours is over?!?! Wow!
Do you guys know why my trade for the limerick contest was never accepted? I don't know why and I had already come uo with five!
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Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:07 pm
Sorry I've been MIA lately! I had spring break, last week..? or was it 2 weeks haha everything goes by so fast. It was pretty lazy, I think I was in front of my computer watching dramas for the majority of the time. Luckily tonight at 12 am in 5 hours i'm going to ORLANDO FLORIDA! Orchestra trip right after spring break= EPIC 3 day week for us. Then next week is easter weekend and that's another 3 day week. Quite an awesome schedule if I do say so myself wink
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Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 2:29 am
Ah, lucky people! Having spring break.
But then again, we had winterbreak a couple of weeks ago, and next week is easter break, so we get off all next week and the Monday after. So I can't really complain.
Here we have autumn break which lasts for a week, christmas break that lasts for two, winter break that lasts for one, easter break that lasts for eight days, and then we have summer vacation. Whoopiedoo! 8D
And it's not like we can have spring break now anyhow - it's still winter here.
The other day, my steph-father had to shuffle snow off our roof. o.o And the next, it was the balcony. No one had shuffled off the balcony, so it I had to shuffle off probably about 5 inches or so. 8B Oh the joys of having to shuffle snow every-other day.
AsianSpazz: Lucky. Orlando Florida... Isn't that were the Harry Potter theme park is going to be opened?
I really wanna go there. But plane tickets to the US is so expensive it's not even funny.
Jedi Knight: You bought four books for 35 dollars!? Lucky. Here, I'd only be able to buy either one or two books, depending. Of course, that is if I bought a book in English. If I wanted one in Norwegian, it'd cost me between 40 - 80 dollars.
And all the school books we had to buy last year - this year we got them for free, thankfully - cost 82 dollars. Each. And we had to buy nine books. That was freakishly expensive I tell you.
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Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 2:22 pm
I really want to go to the park to and its not like it is that far away I could drive there. 9it would take like all day mind you but still) I really want to buy a Harry Potter book in another language that would be so cool!
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Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 3:34 pm
Kitsune: It was actually a little more than $35-more like $40. The original cost was around $60, but my mom had a 30% off your purchase coupon, so that's why it was so cheap. If she hadn't had the coupon, I probably only would have bought two books (one of them was hardcover, and cost almost $20). As for your school books, I know how expensive they can be. My brother had to buy a math textbook for college, and it cost him almost $200! Woohoo can't wait til I get to college. Just imagine how much the textbooks will cost then. And yes, the HP theme park will be opening sometime this spring in Orlando, Florida at Universal Studios.
I wish I could go to the HP park, but alas, it probably won't happen for awhile. My family isn't really big on taking vacations-we haven't taken one in about 8 years (sad, I know). And no one in my family is really that into HP like I am, so yeah...I envy the people who live right by the park and can just drive there in a matter of mere hours.
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 4:30 am
Ah, that explains it then! And here I was envying you Americans for your cheap prices.
Though other than books, college and healthcare, everything is cheaper over there. sad Urrr, I hope our Universities have the same thing that our High Schools now have - that you ran borrow the books from the library. Then all I have to worry about is the living expenses when I start at the University, which would be great.
Well, if you have any friends who aodre Harry Potter as much as you do, then maybe you could go with them? A friend of mine and I have been travelling to Oslo for conventions for quite a while - just the two of us. And we have to take the airplane because it takes two - three days to drive to Oslo from here.
Personally, I wish they would've built the park in Britain instead. Simply because it'd be cheaper for me to get there. xp
Vball: Ah, lucky! Being so close to the future theme park! I envy you. ^^ The only thing we're close to is to a small zoo called polarzoo. 8D
Haha, I have the 2 - 5th book in Norwegian. Believe me, it's almost painful to read - they've changed some of the names. Hermione Granger being Hermine Grang, Snape being Slur, Dumbledore being Humlesnurr, Tom Marvolo Riddle being Tom Dredolo Venster (though in the Danish version, his name is Romeo Gåde Detlev) and James Potter name is now Jakob Potter and so on.
Though the most painful one is Remu's nickname Moony. In the Norwegian version, it's Luna. ._. Luna Lovegood ended up being called Lulla Lunekjær...
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