Away From the Heat
Dec. 23rd, 2015 11:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilightponyI used Moondancer's Haycartes spell variant to drop in on her. I think she is a little stressed out. I could see her from my spot on the open page, sitting half hidden behind a great wall of reading material. I got her attention by calling out her name, but she was so startled that she knocked over a whole pile of scrolls and sent them rolling every which way. When she trotted closer, I could see her breath. I reminded her that it's Winter now.
She told me that her furnace stove is buried in books and that she just hadn't got around to clearing them off. I think that letting her house look like she's not there might also be why she's not heating yet.
In other news, Moondancer has agreed to be a guest lecturer for a class on advanced study techniques early next semester. That's when she'll be teaching the Haycartes spell. The flood of ponies piaffing her door and whickering at the window has slowed to a trickle, but she'll be relieved when she has given the lesson and she'll get some peace. She said she's usually at my place now, and the heat is on there.
She told me that her furnace stove is buried in books and that she just hadn't got around to clearing them off. I think that letting her house look like she's not there might also be why she's not heating yet.
In other news, Moondancer has agreed to be a guest lecturer for a class on advanced study techniques early next semester. That's when she'll be teaching the Haycartes spell. The flood of ponies piaffing her door and whickering at the window has slowed to a trickle, but she'll be relieved when she has given the lesson and she'll get some peace. She said she's usually at my place now, and the heat is on there.
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Date: 2015-12-24 02:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-25 12:24 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2015-12-24 08:39 pm (UTC)And by the way, merry Christmas!
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Date: 2015-12-25 12:21 am (UTC)Thanks! That's the tree ceremony holiday, right? The one where you bring a tree indoors, eat a cake effigy of a tree trunk, but you don't eat the real tree?
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Date: 2015-12-25 12:46 am (UTC)While we do bring a tree inside, it's mainly for decoration. That, and it's a holdover from ancient times when people would use pine needles to remind them of spring.
Christmas is a holiday in which people, usually family members or good friends, give each other gifts and be thankful for another year.
The cake thing is actually an old joke. Some people make something known as fruitcake for Christmas, but fruitcake is notoriously bad and/or hard as a brick. So, nobody eats it and uses it as a doorstop, according to the joke.
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Date: 2015-12-26 12:31 am (UTC)I like the 'thankful about the year that was' (or will be?) idea. We tend to celebrate the here and now. Pinkie throws parties for birthdays, harvests, surprises... Although we follow a schedule, or celebrations reflect that underlying pony psyche: live the moment.
You make 'baked bads' on purpose? Pinkie and Applejack did that once. It was an accident that got dozens of ponies sick.
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Date: 2015-12-26 05:19 am (UTC)Baked bads on purpose? Oh, no, no, real fruitcake is actually quite a nice thing to eat.
The problem is that it's a bit difficult to make, and everyone who wants to make it doesn't know how to make the thing without it being about as heavy and/or inedible as a doorstop.
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Date: 2015-12-27 01:28 am (UTC)I'd probably get distracted and end up with an over-charred doorstop. That's why Spike does the cooking.