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Icy Shake


There is a time to tell stories, and there is a time to live them.

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  • 247 weeks
    BC2019 Top 16 Review: The Railway Ponies: Highball

    This is a review I did for "Luminaries," a now-defunct project I was invited to contribute to: getting a number of reviewers together to each write an in-depth essay on one of their favorite stories, each covering one by a different author. I jumped on The Descendant's The Railway Ponies: Highball as fast as I could, and as far as I know was one of only a few people (along with

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  • 247 weeks
    From Pratt St. to Pratt St. and Back Again: A Bronycon Report

    My Bronycon experience this year started out rough: following a weeklong push to get a presentation together for work and consequently not doing much travel prep ahead of time, I was up until after 3AM Tuesday the 30th, with a disappointing amount of time spent on something that ended up never mattering at all—getting together a couple Magic decks that I’d be OK with losing in

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  • 248 weeks
    Bronycon 2019

    In the airport, will take off in an hour. Looking forward to another con, hope to catch up with people from last time, meet some new ones. And pick up some books. Probably too many books.

    Also looking for suggestions of either things to do solo in Baltimore, especially Wednesday and Sunday nights, or info on open-invite/public/whatever con/pony people related events to check out if possible.

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  • 339 weeks
    Happy Halloween, Ponyfolks!

    Have fun, stay safe, party responsibly!

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May
16th
2015

One day ends . . . · 12:12am May 16th, 2015

. . . and the next isn't quite ready to begin. (It's okay, Celestia, you can sleep in.)

As of tonight, I've left my first job, excluding summer work and part-time jobs during the school year. This August I'll be starting graduate school, in a field pretty strongly unrelated to what I've been doing these last two years, but until then . . . not much.

It's a strange feeling I'm experiencing now: not much of anything. It's an improvement compared to December 2012, when I last finished school and was looking for work. Then, the future was a source of immediate anxiety. Now, with the prospect of a return to a more familiar state, if one with a pretty distinct set of challenges from those I've faced before—moving from one discipline to another is less prominent in my awareness than the switch from primarily being a consumer-student to being a producer-researcher—and no threat of unemployment and all that goes with it, everything just seems less intense.

Oh well. I can always let the anticipation and the worries hit me later. Until then, I guess I'll just have to enjoy it.
And pack. That too.

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Comments ( 2 )

Good luck.

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Almost makes me want to go back to school. :O

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