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Right now I do not know how I’m going to feed the horses for the rest of the month. I have managed to scrape out enough to pay for the last load of hay (if that late check finally gets here), but once it’s eaten, which it will be in about ten days, I don’t know what I’m going to do. The farm will be gone by midsummer unless I find a steady source of sufficient income. I’ve been hustling like a hustling thing but so far with minimal results. The market does not want either me or the horses. The horses are all old and therefore retired and unsalable, or else would require thousands of dollars’ worth of training and show fees to have any sale value. No one can take them. The market is saturated with unwanted horses and the rescues are overloaded. I am over 60, hearing impaired (ergo, unable to use the phone), and with chronic fatigue syndrome which makes office or minimum-wage work difficult to impossible. And minimum wage would not support the animals, let alone me. All my income streams from backlist books, editing, writing, etc. have shrunk to a trickle or dried up. No one has booked a Camp in over a year.

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And a sale on editing and book mentoring services and Horse Camp here: http://dancinghorse.livejournal.com/330113.html

Hi there!

I’m not the world’s most experienced fair isle knitter, and I find that keeping the stranding at just the right tension to be the biggest challenge.  If it’s too loose it can be a mess, and if it’s too tight, the fabric ends up looking puckered.

I’ve had decent luck by keeping the different balls of yarn on different sides of me as I go – and by really paying a lot of attention to my tension.  There are a lot of REALLY good tutorials on youtube and I strongly encourage you to check them out.

and did i mention that my students are amazing? they’re smart and (relatively, considering it’s a required course) excited, and they care about their education, and i know it’ll never happen, but if i could get a full time position at this school, i think i could be very happy here.

and like, back to my students, but basically they’re all interested in the exact same things i’m interested in, which isn’t that surprising because i’m only, like, seven to ten years older than them? but like, basically, they are all younger versions of me, and just–i mean, my entire class is made of young women of color. tell me that’s not the best class in the fucking world, and i will fight you to the death.

and did i mention that my students are amazing? they’re smart and (relatively, considering it’s a required course) excited, and they care about their education, and i know it’ll never happen, but if i could get a full time position at this school, i think i could be very happy here.

and like, back to my students, but basically they’re all interested in the exact same things i’m interested in, which isn’t that surprising because i’m only, like, seven to ten years older than them? but like, basically, they are all younger versions of me, and just–i mean, my entire class is made of young women of color. tell me that’s not the best class in the fucking world, and i will fight you to the death.

-wacky, highly out of character ‘sleepovers’ with the villains of the series

-not bothering to research the culture the series originated from (we live in Japan but for some reason we’re celebrating a westernized version of Christmas?)

-sugar highs??? the entire cast has eaten sugar and now randomness ensues!!1!

-really surreal oneshots taking a completely illogical idea to the highest possible level played completely for laughs (re: maybe Harry was so good at flying because He Was A Broom All Along)

-user guides for characters (as if they’re adoptable robots)

-disclaimer at the beginning of the story, end of the story, used as page breaks in the middle of the story I DO NOT OWN THIS PLEASE DON’T SUE I’M DIRT POOR

-author’s notes at the beginning of the story, end of the story, used as page breaks in the middle of the story, LOL I WROTE THIS AT ONE IN THE MORNING PLEASE REVIEW

-nutshell/condensed retellings of the series, again usually humorous

-AUs where everything except the main character’s names are completely different that have no real connections to the series (High School AUs are EVERYWHERE)

-The writer’s favourite character isn’t dead and the rest of the cast questions it once and then never mentions it again