I can't play MP3s! I need my music to write by! This is right after a bizarre BSOD (KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR, don't have the exact error codes, triggered by refreshing a FIM Fiction page, music was paused at the time) and CHKDSK (run in response to the previous, deleted some orphan files and added a data pointer (or something like that) to another file. No names of files given), and I was able to play them just fine right beforehand, so it would have something to do with one of those. I tried

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And just for the record, this isn't a discussion of political beliefs, I'm just explaining why political science can be such a frustrating area of study. Geopolitics is the politics of geography, and is a major aspect of political science. Now let me introduce you to the area (since it is not recognized as a country) that gives me a headache:

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Really I stopped doing analysis because I was going to run out (as well as fanfic reviews, though I might kick those off again with slightly modified criteria)

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Specifically in regards to what you think the cause of my recent success is, since I would like to emulate that as much as possible, while still writing what I want to write (and this will be the only time you hear me say anything about the quality of my own writing).

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Okay, silliness aside (I do tend to get a little silly after an intense emotional moment. More on that at the end), I'm dropping the analysis aspect because I'm going to run out in a hurry.

So onwards!

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Honest question...

Well, that was my realization about Luna Looks for Love sometime around Monday afternoon. The way I'm looking at it, it's going to be at least 25 chapters, averaging around 4000 words a chapter and, with my writing speed, will probably take over a year to complete. When I started writing this story, I had no clue it would be this long or complex (Which says a lot about my thought processes).

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Short answer: Pegasi have a lot of trouble dressing themselves

Long answer:

I've stopped talking about the goings on in my life in favor of analyzing the show way too much. To start with, I'm going to deal with an issues I saw when writing The Model Caretaker.

To start with, I will use a picture from the end of "Read It and Weep" to demonstrate the main problem:

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The cat I lived with for the past 15 years suddenly passed on last night, so I'm not in the mood for a long complex post about what I intended to post about. This also means that my fanfiction review is not happening this week. Coincidentally it was a sad fic that I planned to review (Sweet and Simple Closure, which I'll try to review next week), though I can give you a status update about "Luna Looks for Love" at least. I'm dealing, though, thanks to both an excellent pick-me-up in the form of

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Between the bombings at the Boston Marathon, the explosion at the Texas fertilizer plant, and the manhunt for the second suspect in the former yesterday, this has been far too long a week. We live in interesting times, that's for sure. Hopefully, going forward they'll be calmer and less interesting.

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Once again my life runs into an issue (and this was supposed to be a quiet week), since, due to the flea collar I put on him, my cat got very sick, specifically no energy and much drool (Read up on Hartz flea collars and you will see that this is nothing unusual. Caveat Emptor indeed). I took the collar off and now he's fine but still, it's not something I enjoy dealing with. Anyway, in better news, Twilight Sparkle's hot minute is out (and I beat Dashell, Equestria Forums wonderful, quirky

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