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 Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:51 pm
the_cereal_queen Mione Weasley the_cereal_queen Mione Weasley Hey....long time no talk. Sounds like you have a busy life!
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Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:52 pm
*adjusts the helmet on her head*
So do I look creepy or what? cool
I'm experimenting with my slightly more disturbing items so I can figure out what to wear for Halloween.
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:03 pm
Hello Puffies!!!
So many new kids! xd That's great! Now, I know most of the older members and I certainly know Juni, but I don't think I know a great deal of the First years and maybe even second years. So I suppose I'll give a quick intro of myself. (If you're too impatient, don't care, or are too ADHD to read the intro, at least read the bottom, it is important.)
My name is Mafalda Prewett (actually Katie, yes the character name is from J.K.'s site and yes she's technically supposed to be a know-it-all in Slytherin, but I'm a red head and thus feel a strong connection/loyalty to the Prewetts and Weasleys). I'm currently 20 years old and attending college in California. I joined the Harry Potter Guild of Gaia back when it was just a wee thread around this time in 2004. I became a fairly active member as a Ravenclaw (I know... I'm a nerdy Hufflepuff and confused my dedication for Ravenclawish perfectionism...not that I'm not a perfectionist...)
When the thread was turned into a guild I became more active and soon switched houses and became the guilds first and only Hufflepuff Head. (Interesting fact: The guild's founder, Pinkie, would have been the Hufflepuff Head, but she didn't want to show house-bias and remained the Headmistress.) I was extremely active for about two years. To list all I did would make this post ridiculously longer than it is already going to be, as I tend to ramble, so I'll just name the things I take the most pride in: created The Hogwarts Monthly, sorting requirements, and making this house the most loyal and active house in the guild (or at least I'd like to think we are).
I started to fall out of action (so to speak) during the fall school semester last year. I was then going to school in Washington (WSU, Go Cougs!), and I was starting to get really depressed and homesick. My grades fell (I dropped out of school by Thanksgiving) and I feel to horrible that all I did was sit around and play video games. I finally moved home for good around Christmas (by then I was probably completely missing from Gaia). The Holidays picked me up, but my computer has broken. I got a job babysitting my cousin's kids for the spring semester and since babysitting doesn't require a computer, I wasn't really in a hurry to fix my computer. I was just trying to get back on my feet. By summer I joined a Drum and Bugle Corps with my little sister (she and I used to run a guild in Neopets with two other sisters from Canada). I decided to get my GPA back up and so now I am going to junior college and marching in a winter guard.
Now, I've decided to come back! I know that there's no way I can be as active as I used to be. It was much easier to juggle friends, school and Gaia when I was two states away from my family and boyfriend. But anyone who is close to their family, like I am, and who lives with their family while going to college, will agree that it's very different from living in a residence hall. But, none the less, us Harry Potter fanatics should stick together. My family may like the books too, but there's only so many times you can bring up the subject before they get noticeably tierd of you. Thus, I'm back on a sort of social basis.
So, if you've read this far or have been reading the S.F.Q. in the Care-Taker's Office, then you'll know that I've decided that I don't really deserve to be your Head of House any more. It's not fair to you or me to think that I can give you the attention you should have. But I want you to have an impact on who is chosen to replace me. As I'm the only Hufflepuff Head this guild has ever had.
Thus, if you know of a HPGoG Hufflepuff that you think should be Head of Hufflepuff House (or Head Puffie, as I like to call it), PM me with a nomination for them. You may also PM me if you would just like to offer your services as either Head Puffie or (should Juni or Nick_Jonas_Luvr become the new Head) as a Deputy Head or Prefect. It would be nice if your nomination included your year and your reasons for nominating the person, but it is not required, you could just PM me a name and I'll figure it out. Keep in mind that this person will have mod powers and access to our Headmaster's account (including his funds and inventory), so make sure you nominate someone you would trust with our guild, not just our house. Don't be shy, I'd greatly appreciate any votes. Just make sure you PM them so they all remain anonymous.
Thank you,
Mafalda Prewett
(Your soon to be former Head of House)
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:05 pm
Oh, and nice costume Juni!
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Although I must say it doesn't seem quite as crazy and your costumes have been in the past...
That's not a bad thing though...
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:03 pm
ok Puffies.. I have a funny story about my bus ride.
Just to start I would like to inform you guys that I llive by a cow/corn field in Minnesota, I still live in town but the field is right in my back yard. and we pass the other side of the field for me to get home from school everyday. My friends and I like to look at the cows as we drive by and there always seems to be one that's about 5 ft farther away thena ll the rest of the cows and we named her the Emo Cow.
So, everyday we look for the Emo Cow and everyday we talk about how funny it would be if he was black and had peircings etc. and Yesterday one of the funniest things happened involving the Emo Cow.....there was a cow that was farther away then all the rest of them like normal...but it was laying on it's side. It looked like it was dead. So we are saying that the Emo Cow finally did it....he's finally gone. We made jokes that it would be funny if there was a pool of blood around his and the farmer looked him and his hooves were cut.
Today we were looking at the feild and all the cows seemed to be acting Emo and we were thinking that they were regretting not believing the Emo Cow that he would do it. And that they were having a mourning day....tomorrow I hope the cows are back to normal. I'll keep you guys posted about the Emo Cow thing if you want me to.....I thought it was so Funny.
I hope this doesn't ovend(sp) anyone...it's just a joke that Cows in the field behind my house have feelings like teenagers. ..DON'T KILL ME!! I DIDN'T COME UP WITH IT!!!
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:55 pm
KTweirdchick Oh, and nice costume Juni!
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Although I must say it doesn't seem quite as crazy and your costumes have been in the past...
That's not a bad thing though...
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@Mione: I'm not offended by it. Though I can't say I find it funny. Maybe funny odd, but not funny ha ha, since I have a friend who had suicidal tendencies when she was younger. She's not dead, but the whole ordeal left her a major wrist phobia. She can't even look at somebody touching their own wrist now without freaking out.
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:32 pm
Guess you had to be there.....
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:38 am
Mione Weasley Guess you had to be there..... It sounds like something me and my little sister would come up with, actually... (Sorry Juni) I also had a friend who used to cut herself, only unfortunately it was more of an attention thing although she was admittedly later diagnosed with a more mild type of Bipolar Disorder. Now, I know it was more for attention for two reasons, first one being when she wore a t-shirt and no jacket or anything on the coldest day of the year in the rain because she had cut herself the night before, while he rest of us were all bundled up. The second was that in later years she actually told me so; her mom has multiple sclerosis, and she couldn't handle all the doctor visits, the pain her mom was going through, or the fact that her two older brothers were dealing with it be becoming pot heads and speed addicts. It actually did a number on me as well; it's very traumatic to have your best friend (and my only friend, because I had moved there pretty recently) on the phone saying that she's going to kill herself. I was only about 11 at the time and I didn't even know her parents, what was I supposed to do? But she's past it all now and has actually apologized to me, which was, of course unnecissary; I was just happy that our friendship had given her enough that she wasn't seriously suicidal.
Anyways, around the same time; my beautiful, intelligent, funny, and otherwise wonderful cosin was hospitalized because she had become bulimic and (apart from my aunt, who I guess had just begun to suspect) no one had noticed how skinny she had gotten until she passed out at high school her freshmen year and hit her head on the way down. Her head was fine, just a small cut (but your head bleeds a lot when cut, so it's understandable why she was hospitalized at first). But the doctor was giving her a full examination just to make sure that was the only injury and also to try to determine why she passed out in the first place (all she had done was get up from her desk quickly for a fire drill). Anyways, he flet her ribcage and could feel each rib easily. After a single psych visit she cracked and admitted that she had been bulimic for the past year (apparently becoming worse by far in the past 3 months since she started high school) because her brother and father had often joked around that she was fat. She was sent to a clinic for 3 months (apparently she was lucky). She wasn't allowed to go the bathroom alone, they measured all portions of food that she ate (which was like nasty cafeteria food), and she wasn't even allowed to see her family for the first month. Then when she got out she had to endure the constant hounding of her parents and friends, trying to make sure she wasn't regressing.
I just think that there are worse ways to hurt yourself than by your wrists. Because the reason my cosin got worse was because people would inadvertently praise it by saying "have you lost weight? you look great! You're turning into a little lady now aren't you?" etc. I see that as far more psychologically damaging. To hate yourself and your appearance to the point of denying your body necissary nutrients to live and then feel approval after this. It's like inadvertently sending a message to your brain "yes, we like you better when you aren't yourself. And we will like you more if you keep doing this to yourself" I can't imagine it... Not that I'm trying to be-little your friend or any other poor soul who feel such despair that they no longer want to live, or else feel the need to hurt themselves. I mean, I kind of do that to a point, if I'm mad at myself for something, I'll often go practice color guard (usually crazy tosses that scare me or else exercises that are especially difficult for me) or else do evil physical conditioning-type stuff. Which is much more productive than what I used to do, which was wallow in my room on my computer and play video games (basically giving up on all other aspects of life because one bit didn't go well... not exactly healthy...I'm glad I took up color guard again...) eek My goodness I ramble too much! sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:30 pm
Wow, today was a dead day for the commonroom. Where did everybody go?
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:43 am
im back biggrin hi ktweirdchick i havent post befor.. this is exiting. : D. junimia: nice avi! i like it!
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 1:27 pm
sorry I haven't been here for a while. My internet was down again for the past few days. I'm back now though.
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 4:14 pm
Mr Xenophilius Lovegood im back biggrin hi ktweirdchick i havent post befor.. this is exiting. : D. junimia: nice avi! i like it!
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 7:05 pm
*sniff sniff* I was at my boyfriends house today adn I was talking to his mom about Harry Potter becasue Jake and I got her to start reading the books she's on the 6th now, and we were talking about Hufflepuffs while we watched the 4th movie which was on TV and I was saying "why would anyone want to date a Ravenclaw? EWWW" while I was looking around the corner at Jake (my boyfriend's name if you didn't figure that out). Jake walked in the room ond goes "better then a smelly Hufflepuff" .....so I smacked him...stupid Ravenclaws...so full of themselves.
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 1:19 am
Hufflepuffs are supposed to be smelly? *sniffs self* I smell like strawberries. Does that count?
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:03 am
Junimaia Hufflepuffs are supposed to be smelly? *sniffs self* I smell like strawberries. Does that count?
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