In case I'm not back before the big day, I'd like to go ahead and wish everyone a very merry Christmas!

Yesterday Moon was feeling very frisky. She bounced around the ring like a circus horse and kept doing this little half rear every time I asked her to reverse direction. (I wasn't riding her at the time--that would NOT have been cute and adorable!) She even stopped traffic as a van paused for the driver to watch her. Then she pulled up an old weed and started spinning it around like a lasso--I'd never seen her do that before. Some horses like to twirl lead ropes if they can get them in their mouths, but Moon has never been one to play with *things* as long as I've had her. I think the Quarter Horses she lives with are getting lazy in the cold weather, whereas she spent the first 10 years of her life in Pennsylvania, so I guess weather in the 30s is time to party for her!

I've been celebrating the end of student papers for the year by reading actual books! So far I've read Agatha Christie's "Nemesis" and Kai Meyer's "The Water Mirror." Nemesis was nice, light fun. The Water Mirror was a wildly imaginative YA fantasy--loved the flying stone lions, magic mirrors, mummy armies, and MAGICAL VENICE!! However, toward the end some of the religious elements started to bother me somewhat. Even though I'm a very strong fantasy loving Christian, I can get a bit particular when "real world" religion gets mixed in with fantasy. I just started reading "The Dante Club," which I picked up because I love a nice mixture of the classics and murder ;) (And the title reminded me of one of my favorite books I've read in the past 3 years "The Club Dumas.") The first little bit has been a bit gruesome for Christmas reading, so I may set it down for a couple of days. I have "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town" on hand and I may run though it first. This book has perhaps the wildest summary I've ever read--http://www.amazon.com/Someone-Comes-Town-Leaves/dp/0765312786 . I hope the craziness is as much fun as it sounds like!

And Sanctuary fans, be sure you check out the ficlet by Tiwtin where Will finds out about Helen and Tesla http://tiwtin.livejournal.com/25894.html. I know I'll be giggling about static for the next several days :) The Tesla fandom seems to have put out several fanvids and I'm looking forward to checking them out after Christmas. (Computer issues...) And a question about Helen--how soon after injecting the Source blood did she find out about her longevity? Was it somehow discovered right away or were there a few years of the boys all going, "Boy, you sure got the short end of the stick!" ? I can't remember if this has been addressed in the show and I'm very curious about this point!

So I sat through most of the episode going, "Don't kill Tesla, please don't kill Tesla." Mr. Black was completely unconcerned and assured me that Tesla was a comic character, plus the episode was entirely too funny for them to end it like that. So it was a huge relief that we had my favorite vamp (why yes, I do intend to keep calling him that) drinking wine at the end.

I think my biggest *SQUEE* moment came not from the "tied up" comment (though quite cute), but from the fact that Tesla is a Borges fan!!!! YEA!!! I'm ridiculously tickled when a favorite character shares a favorite author with me.

I'm firmly convinced that Tesla's resignation to his mortal status was just a ploy to get sympathy/comfort from Helen (and to keep her from finding some new and creative way to lock him up after this latest attempt to TAKE OVER THE WORLD). After all, this is a fellow who does not quit easily, and I'm quite certain that the moment he is out of her line of sight he'll be back in the lab whipping up a cure (if he hasn't already). I chose to believe we'll soon have a snarky, *magnetic* vampire on our hands. At least that's the way it is going to go in my mind. So take that TV writers! HA!

Though part of me really, really wants a cute, funny fic where Helen has to take care of Tesla because he has a COLD and he's being all overly dramatic over the fact.

The comment on Druitt has me nervous though. Sane!Druitt is my favorite character after Tesla and I confess to shipping Helen/John on the show (in fanfic I want to read about Helen and Tesla and I love their moments on the series, but on the show I think I want to see Helen and Druitt wind up together.)