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Bad News: Thanks, in part, to this fic messing up my sleep schedule, I am now sick. My throat is on fire and I am sooooo congested. Boooo.

Good news: I finished my fic! Well, I finished the first full draft anyway. I have no idea how long it will take to edit this monstrosity or when/if I'll find the courage to post it. I need to figure out getting the thing pre-read and edited.

Bad News: I put off too much work this week and now need to get all my stuff done this weekend. Finals will be here soon and I need to make sure my students are ready and I still have a class to plan.

Good News: I have my Sanderson book to keep my company during breaks.

So there's my day for you.

Some MLP thoughts:

We've been listening a lot to the MLP Christmas soundtrack. This is interesting because MLP lore makes it fairly clear there is no Christmas in Equestria, right? They have Hearthswarming Eve instead, a holiday much like Christmas where friendship between different kinds of ponies helped keep back the darkness known as the windigos.

Still, I don't want to complain because the songs are lots of fun. It's actually nice they didn't use traditional lyrics on many of them. Applejack sings a version of Days Gone By(lyrics) (song) that is sweet, fun, and readily available for the kids to sing this New Years Eve. Twilight has a sweet rendition of We Wish You A Merry Christmas with fun lyrics far more palatable and interesting than the original. I really wish some of the songs on the Christmas album had videos to go with them. The Rainbow Dash version of Dashing Through the Snow is hilarious and I'm fairly impressed in Daniel Ingram's ability to paint a picture of Rainbow's chaos without with having a video to go with it. We all laugh when it says :

Thought I'd grab some friends

And take them for a ride

Not so sure what's up

As ponies run and hide

and:

Go grab Applejack

Who's hiding in the barn

Put her in the back

And leave behind the farm

Please tell me someone made an actual video to this??

Thankfully we do get the Hearthwarming Eve songs as well. I think that episode may be one of the best versions of A Christmas Carol I have ever seen and the music is fun enough it never gets old despite having kids making me listen to them over and over and over....

My favorite is definitely Applejacks's Seeds of the Past. I feel it captures that innocence of childhood and how easily it can affect our future selves.

Then some distress, words so careless

Standin' there, you don't know what to do

Feelin' helpless, you can't make it hurt less

So you go and change your point of view

And in that moment, though you didn't know it

Your defenses set up walls you built to last

Leading to the pony you've become today

And the spell you're about to cast

It all comes from your past