Hope and Her Adventures in Geekland

Now for our first blogger guest blog! This one is from Hope from Hope's Bookshelf. Hope is a book blogger who has great reviews (of course) and contests. I especially love checking out her amazing interviews. Plus, Hope is incredibly nice and openly admits to being a geek. What else can you ask for in a book blogger?

Hey, everyone. This is Hope from Hope’s Bookshelf. Before I even start my guest blog, I would like to thank Bella Aire for asking me to participate. :)

So, this whole week is all about geeks, right? Well, I’m pretty sure by now you’ve realized that I’m a geek. A big one. While I’m more of a book-ish, English geek, I have lots of friends who are geeks. Like, major, number-one-in-the-class geeks… and well, this guest blog is going to be all about our fun little adventures in Geek Land.

First, let me tell you about a lunch hour we had the other day. I eat lunch with four of my friends. Let’s call them M, A, K, and N. M, A, and K are girls, and N is the guy. The three girls and I have all read Twilight, right? And, well, N is very anti-Twilight. So, we’re all sitting there, eating our food, when all of the sudden, A says, “Who would we all be if we were the Cullen’s in the lunchroom scene in the Twilight movie?”

Immediately, A says she’d be Jasper, because that’s her favorite, and K says she’d be Alice. A makes M Edward. N looked totally confused when A turned to him and said, “And here’s Rosalie with her long, golden locks.” And let’s just say that that was one of the most entertaining lunches I’ve had in a really long time.

And, just because I can’t resist, we’ll have another Twilight related funny story. In my Honors Biology class, we have lots of spare time at the end of class. So, M, K, and I were sitting there talking about Twilight one day, because K had just finished reading them. N is just sitting next to us, shooting us the weirdest looks because we’re so book obsessed. And because he’s very anti-Twilight.

And then enters F. F is number one in our class and is very geek-ish. And, what makes this even funnier – F is a guy. So, F turns around and N thinks he’s going to talk to him, and that they can be very anti-Twilight together. Then, F surprises us all by saying, “Are you talking about Twilight? I’ve read all those books over the summer. I thought they were very unoriginal.

Now, let’s skip to my sixth hour. I have an online class my sixth hour. I had a scheduling conflict, so in order to keep all my honors class and my two electives – choir and Spanish II – I had to take online English, so that’s what I have sixth hour. K and M are in this hour, as well as two of my geeky guy friends that are in my grade.

K has a book reviewing blog, also, so we’re always talking about books and all things book related. So, the other day we logged onto the computers under the newspaper account, because when you do that you can access anything and everything – MySpace, Facebook, e-mail, and you can watch YouTube videos.

So, one day I was sitting at my computer away from K and M, actually working on my English class in class for once, when I hear K say, “Hope! Hope, come here!” Wondering what the heck she wanted, I got up and walked over to her computer.

I get over there and K says, “Hope! Did you know that they’re talking about making City of Bones a movie?!”

And I didn’t know at the time, so I was really excited. We then continue to spend the rest of the hour on YouTube watching videos of all the people who they think they want to be the actors in the movie and critiquing them. And deciding which ones we like. And just being overall geeks because one of our favorite book series’ is becoming a movie.

So, yeah, there’s a few stories about my geek-ish friends and I. Yes, we’re geeks. And, yes, we’re proud of it. :)