Alysa’s Comments (group member since Jun 27, 2015)

Alysa’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Team Who Must Not Be Named Beater Defense

Aha! Beater Alysa is attempting to stop those Magpies from distracting Seeker Rebecca as she tries to spot the snitch.
We may all be Taking the Titanic, but Alysa won't let the Good Ship TWMNBN go down without a fight!

Ambi wrote: "The Magpies shall not be distracted!"

Does your Seeker know that?
*evil laugh*

@Captains, are we doing a planning spreadsheet?

Team Who Must Not Be Named Beater Defense

Jessi swoops in to finish Instinct: A Prehistoric Romance, and gets Donna back on her broom!

Team Who Must Not Be Named Beater

Alysa is back, so reserve Maddy can go out for some butterbeer.
For real this time!

Too bad Fred and George did not play quidditch with toilet seats that one time.

Hi again! Okay, I have some time left before I'm on again in Quidditch... but, any minute now... lol.

I'm Alysa, from NYC. Things are weird here but improving, if we're being general.
I'm a librarian in real life, doing basically collections management in an academic library. I read widely, but with majority Spec Fic (sci fi, fantasy, et al).

This will be my third Wheelathon, which -- after the last TT and of course due to my first ever NBRC team challenge having been Cutthroat -- I now consider to be a pretty chill challenge. Or at least, this new Wheelathon will be relatively chill for me, since I aim to rein in my infamous OCD competitive streak, and I am not captaining, and will try not to backseat captain so much. :D

Team Who Must Not Be Named Beater

Alysa is back, so reserve Maddy can go out for some butterbeer.

ETA: nevermind! I am not back... I am still reading though and trying to figure out all the comments and jumped the gun.
Sorry!

Oh hai!
I will do a proper intro post soon, but about to go to sleep because QUIDDITCH. A reserve is coming to sub for me in, oh, 8 minutes. I'll be back online in about 6 hours. :D

Halli wrote: "Anybody else anxiously refreshing your group waiting for it to be unlocked? 🤣😅"

ME!

And me, like:

Alysa wrote: "Jenny wrote: "I will if you will. Book masochists r us."

I am down, but as for the date, maybe let’s wait to see when this Quidditch thing might be happening... Or maybe we can talk Cat into doing..."

Okay, how about 19 June for this zany back room Buddy Read?

Unless of course Cat wants to use her epic mod powers and just call it as a BOM, no democracy required, hehehehe....

Jenny wrote: "Alysa wrote: "@Jenny, maybe we can set a date for that Tree Sex BR, and then recommend it to EVERYONE ELSE. *evil*"

Yes we should. Why not?"

If Cat wants to open noms for a July Back Room BOM, that would be excellent. Although, since it's for Wheel, there are sure to be many more noms and votes than usual, which means the tree sex book will likely not win.

So...
*toddles off to update Buddy Read Request Thread...*

@Jenny, maybe we can set a date for that Tree Sex BR, and then recommend it to EVERYONE ELSE. *evil*

Bwahaha, I love my team’s first tag list!
And the task list! 💕💞💗

@Alison, I think we're all dealing with this issue! I already asked my count to be lowered a bit, from 17 to 15, but I feel like my actual rate right now is closer to 10. Like, averaging a book every 3 days or so.
D:

I don't want to bug for a change AGAIN, so I am just crossing my fingers that I can make my reading level go up once summer camps announce their new opening plans, and shit like that, and a small bit of certainty comes back into life!

It’s Robin Hood: Men in Tights!
LOVE that movie!

megan wrote: "I love seeing notifications from this feed pop up in my app. With all that has been going on in 2020, I know I can’t be the only one who could use the distraction of a reading challenge. Especially..."

Ditto to your post, megan!!!

Except for the part about winning. I have no idea who will end up winning, and tbh, I don’t care that much this time around*, I just want to read books and have fun with all of you.


*Reserving right to take back this statement when I inevitability start to become competitive again. Because y’all know this is more likely than not. 😉

I have a very weird mental problem for a week or two after Wheel ends, where I see random stuff out in the world -- like the name of a store or restaurant or something -- and for a moment, I'm like, "That would work for M! Oh... wait..."