Well, I have a nasty cold. It was 100 degrees and dry when I left California a week ago, and now it is close to 50 degrees and rainy. I called in sick and tried to rest. Today I also got all my mail delivered, and this book was released.

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When you come up on an episode that will probably Joss your fic, I guess you can have two different attitudes: excitement or fear. My unfinished story, Command Performance, is all about different winter holiday traditions: how different families celebrate the same holiday, and how some don't celebrate the same holidays at all. But my Pinkie already had a solution, rooted in being a party pony:

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--thanks to blacksilverflames. Thanks to everyone, in fact.

I wish I could guarantee a timely finish on Command Performance. In fact, I'm already behind, and I don't know if I can catch up. I'm not feeling all that great, and I'm also very sad. Usually the way I deal with being sad is by being funny. Funny is great, and Roger Rabbit's right when he says that sometimes it's the only weapon we have.

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--and as my winter holiday present to you, the second chapter of Command Performance, set on Hearth's Warming Day! Please forgive any minor proofreading errors. I've written most of this in the middle of the night and early morning between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

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This is the end of the fall quarter, and as you can imagine, I am way, way overclocked. I wind up reading and commenting on tons of essays. You have no idea how much I envy professors who can grade with a scantron machine. Sometimes I learn things I didn't know. For example, I had no idea there were Alots in Elsinore ("Alot happens in Hamlet.")

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--I've got a new fic up, called Command Performance. And this time Princess Luna and Celestia are taking over.

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