September 9
Meghan woke up before her alarm, which was kinda odd. So I asked her and she said that she was getting kind of nervous about school starting again plus it was also her last day at work and she was going to kind of miss work.
I knew what she was thinking, 'cause I was kind of thinking the same thing. Sometimes change was really uncomfortable, even when it was good. You couldn't help but be a little bit nervous about it. And so I put my head down on her chest and nuzzled her under the chin and she asked if I wanted to go horseback riding tomorrow because it might be our last chance to do it together. And I thought that would be fun, so I said that I would and maybe I'd fly out to the stables today and tell Deanne. She said that I could just call her and I guess I could but that would give me somewhere to go today. And I could get groceries on the way back, 'cause there was a Meijer that wasn't too far out of the way.
Meghan said that since she was awake she might as well get up and so she went to the bathroom and then I had a turn and when I came back out she was sitting on the papasan with a blanket around her. And I sat down on her lap, and she petted my back and said that it was a shame that the window didn't face east. I said that we could go out on the balcony but even then we wouldn't see the morning sun, and she said that she was a little bit underdressed for a trip out on the balcony.
I told her that I didn't think the birds would mind and she said they probably wouldn't, then when I turned my head away she pulled the blanket down and when I saw I leaned up against her chest and she closed the blanket around my head.
That was a pretty comfortable place to be, so I just closed my eyes and let her pet my back until her alarm went off and her pocket telephone was still near the futon, and she had to get up to turn it off.
After I let her out of the papasan she said that we might as well make breakfast and maybe we'd have time to eat it before she got ready for work. All I had left was oatmeal and hay and one piece of casserole that we hadn't eaten last night, so she filled up the electric kettle and started heating the water then leaned back against the counter and said that tomorrow we'd have a proper breakfast because it didn't feel like cooking if all she had to do was put water in a kettle.
I kind of liked that, though. I guess to her it was pretty simple but when I got back to Equestria it wasn't going to be that easy to make hot oatmeal or anything else. Not unless I got to be close to an earth pony and then maybe I could use her stove in exchange for making sure her garden always got the right amount of rain.
Meghan asked me what was going to happen to my furniture and I didn't know. I wanted to keep the papasan in the dorm room 'cause it was comfy and Peggy would like it too, but there wasn't much else that would fit in a dorm room and even if it did I couldn't take it back to Equestria with me. I'm sure that Mister Salvatore and Miss Cherilyn knew that. Maybe they would sell it to someone else, or maybe they would keep it in case the next pegasus wanted it.
It was nice to have time for breakfast without being too rushed, and when we were done eating, I brushed Meghan's hair while she was getting dressed.
I put all my flight gear in my saddlebags and she strapped them on, then filled up my camelback for me and helped me put that on. I'd have to take it off again to put on my flight vest, but that was okay.
We got to her apartment before her friend, so she helped me put on my vest and then we went out on the porch and waited for her friend to arrive.
Once she'd gone to work, I called the airplane directors and told them that I was flying out to Galesburg, and the grumpy man said it was okay as long as I stayed under his flight paths.
So I took off from the porch and climbed up and over the house, then took a fairly straight route across downtown. I climbed a little bit as I went but not too much—there wasn't any need for it.
I followed along the railroad tracks and I was almost all the way to the stables when I remembered that one time when I'd come there early, Deanne hadn't been there yet. But then I decided that was okay, because even if she wasn't I could still spend some time with the horses.
When I got to where the electric wires were, I angled north and flew kinda along their path until I could see the stables and then I went directly over there and circled above. When I was upwind of the stables I heard Henry give a friendly whinny, and then Hoshi too, so I whinnied back and dropped down into their parking lot. Deanne's red truck was there so she must have been around somewhere and since I didn't see her in the training field that meant she was probably in the barn.
I went inside and the dog followed me in and then sat down in the doorway and started thumping his tail on the ground and he looked so happy I kind of wished I had a treat to give him.
Henry was out in the aisleway, a little ways down from his stall. He was all saddled up and tied to the post outside next to Hoshi's stall, and he and Hoshi were rubbing noses which was really cute. And Deanne was in his stall with a shovel which can't have been a fun way to start her day.
Well, I probably should have greeted Deanne first but Henry noticed me and whinnied again so I trotted up to him and let him nuzzle me and I nuzzled him back, then I flew up to the stall door and nuzzled Hoshi, too, which wasn't easy at all. She pushed me back 'cause she was over-enthusiastic.
That got Deanne's attention and she came out to see what was going on so I waved at her and she asked if I wanted to help her muck out a stall. I didn't, really, but I said I could if she had a short shovel. And she said that she'd just been kidding and I didn't need to unless I really wanted to, and then she said that she was going to go around the obstacle course and I could watch if I wanted to, or she could do that later and we could ride together, and I told her that I hadn't planned on riding today but I didn't mind watching her and maybe I'd try the course, too, once she was done with it.
Just then someone called for landing clearance and Henry turned his ears and looked over at me 'cause he was trying to figure out who was talking and that was pretty funny. I lifted up my hoof and turned off my radio so that wouldn't happen again.
When she got done, she took the wheelbarrow outside and dumped it in a muck pile, then put some fresh bedding down in the stall. And she unroped Henry and led him outside, and he was kind of tugging at his lead rope when he saw the course set out.
So she ran around the course for a while and I watched from the fence and shooed the dog away a couple of times, then she walked him around the outside a few laps to cool him down and it was my turn.
I'd never tried it with all my gear on and I probably shouldn't have because the first time through I lost my airplane radio on my sixth landing and had to stop so that I could put it back in my saddlebags. But after that I did well, and I went around the course twice more for practice and then did a pretty quick run just for the fun of it.
When I was done we went back to the washing area and she asked if I wanted the hose, too, but I said that I'd rather not get undressed and then have to get dressed again.
While she was unsaddling Henry, I told her that me and Meghan wanted to come out tomorrow and ride if we could, 'cause school was about to start again and we didn't think we'd have another chance. So she said that was okay, and that she'd be here and she'd try not to wear Henry out too much before.
When she brought him back to his stall he sniffed at the new bedding and then peed on it so that all the other horses would know that it was his, then he stuck his nose in his oat bucket and started eating.
I said goodbye to Deanne and then flew out of the barn and the dog followed on the ground until I got over the trees and lost sight of him.
It was almost straight west to the Meijer—I knew that it was a little bit north, too, but I'd wait until I saw it rather than guess—and I flew over a little lake that I'd never seen before, which had a nice little park next to it.
Meijer was a little bit south of me, and I flew over the roof then looked for one of the little islands to land on. Since there weren't any right near the entrance, I landed alongside the building instead after making sure that there weren't any cars coming.
Even though all the Meijers have the same name, they're not the same inside and I was on the wrong end of the store. And when I got down to the grocery aisles, they weren't arranged the same way as I was used to either, but there were big signs at the end of every aisle that told you where some things were and I guess if you were really familiar with it you'd know what went with what, but I had to wander around a little bit to find everything that I needed.
It wasn't too smart to shop when you were hungry, 'cause you'd buy too much food. So every time I got tempted I reminded myself that unless it would keep in the dorm room or it was something that me and Meghan would eat over the weekend, not to buy it. And also that I'd be having dinner with Jeff, so I shouldn't eat too much for lunch.
I did get some beer to share and I also found they had a set of ice chests by the bakery that had some food which was already made for you and so I thought I'd try the package of sushi that they had.
I ate that out in the parking lot, and it wasn't all that good.
I followed the road back to Kalamazoo, 'cause it angled right towards downtown, and when I got back to my apartment I put all the food away and took a shower.
I sat out on the balcony to dry off and I also read Joel, which was pretty short. He said that locusts had come and eaten everything and I guess that they were like parasprites. And then he said how God was coming like a prairie fire and that all His enemies would fear Him and that God was going to give the Israelites food to replace what they had lost to the locusts, as long as they stopped being bad.
I put my Bible away and flew over to Aric's house, and Angela was in the backyard sunning herself and reading a book so I thanked her for keeping the bird feeder full and then told her that Jeff was having one more barbeque and that she and David were invited, and she said that they'd be there, and she also said that they'd used up the last of the birdseed so if I had extra they could take it back with them after dinner or else I could tell Aric to bring some back from Indiana with him.
If I'd known, I could have got some at Meijer, although then I thought about how hard it would have been to fly back carrying it so maybe it was better that I hadn't. I probably would have wound up dropping it on a car or something.
When I got back home, I saw that I had gotten a telephone telegram from Peggy, and she said that she was leaving tomorrow morning and would spend the night somewhere in Missouri and then be back sometime on Sunday and she asked if I needed anything from Colorado.
I couldn't think of anything, so I told her to have a good trip and I was really looking forward to being roommates again.
Then I went over to Jeff's a little bit early, 'cause Trinity and Lindy and Caleb were playing in the backyard, tossing a frisbee back and forth and so I joined them, and I kind of lost track of time until Jeff came out and lit the grill. And I should have gone back to my house and brought over the beer at least, but we were having too much fun for that.
Meghan found me in the backyard—she was almost to my apartment when I saw her and I called out and she went up to the fence and asked what we were doing and I said that we were playing frisbee, and I had Caleb toss it at me and then flew up in the air to catch it, and she thought that was the funniest thing ever and made us do it again so that she could take a movie with her portable telephone.
She said that she was going to drop her bag off at my apartment and I asked her if she could bring the beer back with her. She said that it wasn't fair that I was having all the fun while she had to work and I stuck my tongue out at her 'cause I knew she was joking.
It was kind of sad that this was our last barbeque together, and I was going to miss them. All the neighbors who came wished me well in school and they said that it had been fun seeing me flying around the neighborhood. And I gave Trinity another ponyback ride around the backyard, and we stayed out eating and talking for a while until it started to rain just a little bit, and then people started to leave.
When me and Meghan were the only ones left, Jeff crouched down and shook my hoof and thanked me for taking the kids Pokemon hunting, and said that whenever I wanted to come by after school I'd be welcome, which was really nice of him.
We went back to my apartment and I told Meghan that Deanne said it was okay to go riding with her tomorrow, and I told her that I'd also run the course again and then I remembered that my GoPro had probably still been filming, 'cause I hadn't thought to turn it off, and so she attached it to my computer and got the movie out of it and she had to do some looking before she found it, and that was a lot more strange to watch than any other movie I'd taken, 'cause it was really bouncy. It didn't feel like I bounced that much when I was on my hooves and I thought that maybe one of the straps had gotten loose, even though they'd been tight when I took off my flight gear.
She said that was probably normal, and it just looked weird because my mind ignored the bounciness.
And then she asked if she could put it on YouTube and I said that she could, so she started doing that and I hopped up on her lap.
While we waited for it to load I unbuttoned her blouse and she rubbed my ears and ran her fingers through my mane, and she was half-undressed by the time the movie finally was on the internet, and I had to stop 'cause there were a couple more things she had to do and I was in her way.
When she was done she turned off my computer and I got off her lap so that she could get out of the chair, and she took off her bra and hung it on the chair, and took her pants off but she kept finding excuses to not take her panties off 'cause she was teasing me and so I held my tail up and kept on teasing her, too, and then she reached into her bag and got out my new toy and said that it was time to try it out.
I thougth she was part cat, not part dog.
Still, I agree with Meghan, it's very funny!
Wouldn't it be tomorrow?
I think the camelback got filled twice. Silver must have been really thirsty on the way over to Meghan's place...
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She's a bird-cat-dog-horse. Get your facts straight.
I think she meant the conversation was today. Either way, I agree that sentence needs work.
And cliffhanger. You tease!
Sure, The Crowdy Dog was happy. He taught that stupid horse to go into the barn, where she belongs. Why shouldn't he be happy?
This reminds me of Alice's adventures when the Cheshire Cat explained why cats are crazy
1 The majority is sane, differing from the majority = crazy
2 Dogs are NOT crazy
3 Dogs growl when upset & wag their tail when happy
4 Cats wag their tail when upset & growl (purr) when happy.
Therefore, cats are crazy.
Growing up, my family had both dogs and cats. Cats may not be crazy, but people who own them are.
I can't think of something to say so
Supermarket sushi usually isn't.
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You've obviously never seen a cat play fetch, have you?
It actually surprised me how different the start date for our quarter systems are. I don't start fall quarter until late september.
I know we talked about this, but it still surprises me that Silver is going back to the dorm. For my school and others in the area, it's pretty common to start living off campus after the first or second year. It's especially surprising for Silver. She has a place off campus (that presumably is within flight range) so it's kind of surprising that she'd go back.
7715508 on the sushi: Truth. Though, I've found that Kroger and its subsidiaries (Food 4 Less and Ralph's, here in CA) have a franchising arrangement with AFC, where a chef at each participating store makes sushi for sale that same day (sell by date on the package is the next day) and the product is actually quite good.
Looks like AFC has a number of franchise locations in Michigan, though, it's mostly just Kroger. Also, cross referencing between AFC and Kroger's location pages, it looks like one of the Elkhart, IN Martin's stores will be the closest place for Silver to go if she were so inclined.
Safeway subsidiaries seem to have a similar arrangement with some other company, but the one example I tried (at a Vons) was not enjoyable. Edible, but not at all worth the price.
The End Is Neigh.
Henry demonstrates a fundamental maxim of civilisation. An Empty Bladder is a Happy Bladder.
At least the BBQ didnt go as usual for a last one. Downpour, hail, power out due to lightning strike, and cook taken out by the trampoline from next door, or even the garden shed from three doors down.
How does one play a backyard?
I thought about the same tthingwhen I used a helmet mounted camera. Turns out, your mind has pretty great image stabilization.
Apparently in addition to bouncing when walking my head wobbles a tiny (you have to focus on the video to notice) amount while still.
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I gathered that she's rather looking forward to reuniting with her dorm-mates. Possibly enough to make that the point of moving back.
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In Terry Pratchetts Diskworld Novels, Reg is a Zombie. Killed at the Battle Of Cable Street. So every year, when the battle is remembered due to its fighters wearing a defining sprig of lavender, Reg goes back to the graveyard to lay with his fellow fallen.
Quite appropiate timing.
Lest We Forget. :poppy:
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Me too. It isn't like she couldn't see everyone from the school and hang out with them, either--back when she was in the dorms it wasn't like she and Peggy were inviting people up everyday.
Hell, her apartment even has a spare bedroom Peggy could use if she wanted to move in and Silver wanted her as a room mate.
7716308 I even forgot that there was a spare room. If they wanted to they could get a group together and get a 4 bedroom or something.
7715851 but her apartment has a spare room that peggy could move into. She could also get a group together and rent out a house. Most college students don't rent out single bedrooms, they get a house with a group or get a 2 bedroom apartment and a roommate.
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The cute ones are always trouble, Silver knows it and she will exploit it.
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Yup. It's no different than any other map produced as part of a series, where the symbology is the same for every map in the set, so they just use the same legend on all of them.
The big (World VFR) map you see on Skyvector isn't actually published, as a matter of fact. It's just a tiling of all the individual sectional maps. If you look closely, you can find some seams where the maps have been put together. So yeah, they all use the exact same symbols.
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And that's how Equestria blew up!
7716726 If you do the Canada roadtrip let me know. I can play tour guide Ken for Toronto and Niagara Falls (Canada side)
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My birthday's not come up yet, however this does raise a point of when's Silver's birthday. I don't recall it being mentioned yet although as we've seen from the show ponies do celebrate them (well Pinkie does and Dash had her birthaversity party). I think it would be an excellent time to compare human (well north American) and pony rituals.
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We mostly use fractions of the form 1/(2^n) (ie 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, etc) and sums of these . These are the easiest for a primitive culture to develop. You take something and cut it in half, then cut that in half, and so on. Although thirds is used a decent amount, halves ism ore common. It shows up a bit in the constructed english units (fractions of an inch, ounces, things like that). fractions of the form 1/(10^n) (tenths, hundredths, thousandths), also known as decimal, are a bit of a special case because the denominator is the same as the mathematical base so things work out to be way neater. Metric was built to take advantage of this.
But you really shouldn't switch between english and metric to get closer to a whole number, at least from a design standpoint. I didn't know hard liquor was sold by 1/5 of a gallon. i'm only 21 and don't really drink much, but my guess is because it's based on something physical, not mathematical. Just like there are 12 inches in a foot. Both inches and feet are semi arbitrary and it just works out that there are 12 inches in a feet.
hoof hooks might work, but nocking (putting the arrow on the string) would be difficult with hooves. honestly, the big thing is that the way it's shown in the show would probably break the bow and you're not going to get out of accuracy. Although the competition seemed to be rate based, not accuracy based. On the back is probably good for artillery, but it isn't mobile (and neither is hoofs). I think accuracy is trainable though. Recurve bows are all reflex.
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it is funny Lauran foist was ask one time ware the pony's go potty at a con if I remember her answer was simply they go in the woods.
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why would they use base 12. i was thinking base 4 using hooves. Although pegasi could develop base 6.
7716844 It's where my grandfather first settled when he came to Canada.
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There's also this Twitter conversation that I love to link as often as possible.
https://twitter.com/fyre_flye/status/289975870377054208
https://twitter.com/Fyre_flye/status/290354348775591936
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I totally forgot about those thanks.
Some question of Pegasi Potty Breaks. There is a poem (by Ogden Nash?)
Little birdie way up high
Look what you did in my eye
I won't tell and I won't cry
I'm just glad cows don't fly
Except in Equestria cows don't fly but some ponies do. I remember commenting about Baby Cakes (over in Poniverse) that there is probably a law against letting Pegasi foals fly without a diaper on the grounds that "If you think birds are bad news...". I can see the scene at the local jail.
"What are you in for?"
"I got 2 for 2"
"So, assault with a deadly weapon?" For non USA residents "#2" = slang for "shit"
7716886 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grits
They are delicious.
I wonder:
Given that Q got bored, created Equus, uplifted ponies, and is Discord; are ponies close enough genetically to horses to make offspring. If so, by pony-standards, the offspring would be magically stunted and mentally retarded. Maybe, the exchange-program should have a warning about the risks of sex with horses.
Its interesting, even though summer is over, we have had some unseasonably warm weather for a little bit.
What? No preliminary commentary on her gift?
Silver: "They did a pretty good job, but this, this, and this are off in these ways. Looks like they need to get a pony on staff."
Meghan: "You're taking all the fun out of sex..."
Also, I should have known that Silver would enjoy playing fetch...
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Cats catch things, too. Sometimes.
Yes, it should have been. Thank you!
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Heh, oops.
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And 100% adorable.
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He got his job done, so it was a good day.
Cats aren't crazy, I don't think. My opinion for why they act so weird all the time is that they can see ghosts. So when they're tearing around the house at 4am for no apparent reason, they're chasing ghosts to keep you safe.
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At least it's better than gas station sushi.
My former girlfriend had a rabbit who thought he was a cat. He'd rub against your legs, bump you with his nose when he wanted attention, jump up and sit on the top of the couch so he could look around, and whenever he saw something standing up, like a box of crackers, he'd hop over, look at you, then knock it down.
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(I looked up 'whinnied' to make sure I spelled it correctly before I figured out where my mistake was)
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And Kalamazoo was a late start, compared to some schools.
They're off from the week of Thanksgiving until the New Years, so that could be part of the difference--do you have to go back after Thanksgiving?
That really wasn't that unusual at K. I didn't get an off-campus apartment until my senior year, and I wasn't alone in that, either. I think in general, the ponies would be happier living in the dorms anyway, since they're pretty social.
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Yeah, we've got a bunch of Kroger stores, although IMHO they're not all that good. I've actually got a Payless loyalty card that also works at Kroger, although I don't know where it is any more.
Meijer does have an in-store bakery, and also a deli, so their sushi is probably made in-house, although I don't know that for sure. I don't even know if they still sell it, but they used to.
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In Michigan, we don't worry too much about what the environment's doing when we're barbecuing. I've done it in the snow before.
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Every time it catches the frisbee, it gets a point; every time you do, you get a point.
(correction made)
Yeah, because when you're doing the moving your body knows and ignores it. When you watch it later, though, your mind can't ignore it and you see it. It's amazing how many things your mind does to your vision without you knowing, actually.
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That's actually the one thing I still kind of miss about dorm life. It wasn't just you and your roommate, but the people down the hall that you hung out with. There were five other people on my wing of the hall that stopped by on at least a semi-regular basis (or I went to their dorm room) out of the seven other people who lived in my wing, and even going visiting other friends wasn't much effort at all. Walk across the parking lot, or down the quad, and you were there.
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That's kind of sad.
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It's more the atmosphere; the little things that Silver Glow isn't always putting in her journal, like waving to a friend as you pass them in the hall or listening to someone else's music whether you want to or not, sharing the shower, and so on.
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Yup, Silver Glow can just look cute and not get punished no matter what she does.
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Cool! That's useful for next time I need to figure one out.
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Will do! It wouldn't be any time in the near future, unfortunately, but one of these days . . .
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It's coming up soonish.
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No sensible person would, but it makes sense to Silver Glow.
As far as I can tell, it isn't. Just that they used to sell it in 1/5 of a gallon (now it's 750ml, so it's not even a fifth).
I got in an argument with a guy at a liquor store once, when I was trying to buy a half-fifth, and he asked if I meant a pint and I said those weren't the same thing.
Yeah, I hadn't thought about nocking. Maybe they could do that with their mouths? Although I'd hate to hold a bowstring in my mouth . . . .
I suppose accuracy depends on what you're trying to accomplish with your volley. Enough arrows to keep heads down and distract the spellcasters, or even break a magical shield, could be a workable strategy, and there it wouldn't matter too much if you hit an individual. There could also be crack teams of archers who are accurate, and the other troops (the artillery) rely more on quantity.
Crossbows are also plausible pony tech. Maybe not quite the same arrangement as human crossbows, but the same basic concept. That strikes me as more an earth pony weapon, though.
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In one of my stories, Luna mentions that they used to use base 4, but when they started to need bigger numbers they switched to 12. And that's still pretty easily countable, since each hoof has one toe and two heels.
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I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the farmponies do. Who wants to come all the way back to the house when you're plowing a field?
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Is there anything there besides rocks and shipwrecks?
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Of course you do.
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That sounds like something Ogden Nash would write.
Yeah, after unification that would probably be something that became a rule pretty quickly. Before unification, well . . . .
I actually wrote a story where Berry Punch went to jail for doing a pressed ham on Mayor Mare's window.
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I'm a little bit dubious, but I would have to try them made the proper way before I was willing to say. I don't trust anyone up north who says that they can cook grits, y'know?
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Nobody in this universe has tried. Given the size difference, you'd have to either use artificial insemination (and the foal might not survive anyway, since it could potentially be as big as the mother), or have a stallion try to get an earth mare pregnant, which has its own problems. "Just stand on this ladder and go for it."
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Had being the key term, now. But it did stay nicely warm rather late this year. Of course, my new boss is a pansy and had to turn the heat on in the shop when it got down to 60.
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There is a company which molds their toys off of IRL horses and you have to assume that if they had access to ponies, they'd do that, too. I think it's Exotic Erotics, but I'm not exactly sure. I thought it was Bad Dragon, but it isn't.
She's the best pony to play frisbee-catch with, since it's nearly impossible to toss it over her head.
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Most of those don't sound like positives to me, really. I have the impression that most people, if they can, will move off campus after the first year of school, because dorm living is kind of shitty however you slice it.
I mean, when I was living in dorms, I had the enjoyment of drunken parties, no privacy--which is what Silver appears to be discovering now--and things like shit smeared all over the shared bathroom toilet. Dorm living is absolutely shitty and there's just no reason anyone would sanely want it if they had some other option. Which Silver, by all accounts, did--and a very nice place that very much suited her wants and needs.
I kind of feel like the story insisted she move back to the dorm without really providing a good reason why, and it sort of feels like an attempt to retain the status quo in a story that is very much about characters moving and changing, at least in part.
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I liked living in the dorms, to be honest. I mean, sure there were some things that were better at my own house, including privacy, but socially it wasn't as nice as the dorm had been. And for Silver Glow--and most ponies--they expect the social atmosphere. They want to be around their friends. She doesn't mind that the bathroom is shared or that sometimes she has to wait for the shower, although of course she'd be happier if all the humans in the dorm liked social bathing because that would make mornings more efficient.
It was always the plan that she would go back to the dorm in the fall. Kalamazoo College pretty much requires all the freshmen and sophomores to live on campus, and a lot of the juniors do as well. I'm trying to remember, but I think that my girlfriend at the time stayed in the dorms until she graduated; I stayed until I was a senior.
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It's possible that Kalamazoo College maintains a different atmosphere, but in general I can't imagine why anyone would want to live on campus when they close live off campus.
And I'm skeptical about how much Silver Glow is really getting out of friendship, in terms of living on campus. I have the impression that most of her friends aren't people who live near to her in the building, but people she's met through her classes--and mostly she seems to hang out with them at the cafeteria. And it's worth noting that she's essentially lost any friends she might have had with her neighbours, too.
In many ways, I wonder if Silver wouldn't find the high-density housing situation of campus rather uncomfortable; as a pegasus growing up in her hometown, it sounds like the population was small enough that most ponies knew most other ponies, perhaps by name, and, certainly, as a pegasus, I'd imagine she'd be used to having far more space and freedom; after all, the whole sky could be her bed, if she was willing to grab a cloud for it.
A lot of people do stay in dorms, but only because they don't have any other options to live elsewhere; I'm skeptical that the university would require it directly as part of her attendance, and she kinda sorta does have a car--her wings.
I mean, Aric lives off campus.
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Yeah, I think that in part it was the atmosphere of Kalamazoo College, and was one of the things that people who lived there were interested in.
It's not so much her necessarily going to their rooms to visit, but the whole routine of seeing other people in the morning or whenever she's in her room or her dorm, and her ability to go stop by a friend's room if the door is open or whatever, and also the herd mentality of safety in numbers. If there is a monster attack, she's around lots of people who she knows and is comfortable with.
But I would argue that she does have the same thing that she had back in her hometown. She knows most of her nearby neighbors pretty well, and she probably knows at least a third of the students on campus by name and appearance. She can fly off whenever and wherever she wants, and if she wants to make a cloud bed, she could, I suppose (although it drifting across someone else's airspace would be an issue).
They do, though.
That's true, and he's not the only one who does; however, at Kalamazoo it was the exception rather than the rule, except for seniors.
"as I went"
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Correction made; thank you!