I'm happy to say the hoedown did not disappoint! Orion roots music band, great food (can't get enough of that mancattle! Mancattle ribs, mancattle flank steak... sentient beans...) and group dancing is actually really really fun why don't we do that more back home? It was four-dimensional hypercube dancing, but you gotta be careful not to brush up against the slicegrass bails.

@Shae there was a shy girl there with red hair, freckles, pale skin, and void eyes. Maybe that's your friend?

The Hobbosses are mean. I know we're supposed to be learning by being part of a working space dude ranch, but this part of it is just a little too "authentic" for me.

It's true the mancattle can be dangerous, and they've shown us the holo of what happened to ol' Sid so many times it doesn't even make me nauseous anymore. But there's other ways to treat us to be safe around them than just screaming at us all the time.

I've been on a five day mancattle drive, riding kponies, driving the mancattle to fresh slicegrass fields. Sleeping on the ground (well, the ground without slicegrass) and ok the night sky is really awesome, and the ground isn't so hard on account of the low gravity. But I'm sure looking forward to the big welcome-back hoedown they keep talking about.

So I'm signed up. But how do I get to this Ranch?

Haven't seen @Ludmila Schneeflocke since the Teen Ice Giants dance and wanted to invite her to the Ostara Gala, but all that is left in her dorm room is a damp spot on the rug. Her roommate hasn't seen her for weeks. I guess I had kind of a heavy crush because I'm heartbroken. Why didn't I try to talk to her again sooner?

I got an invite to the Teen Ice Giants dance, and am taking @Ludmila Schneeflocke. She loves the snow so much and I'm learning to love the cold just I can see her more.

Sure, she's tall, but that is just a coincidence. I mean, not Teen Ice Giant tall. You have to say alert at their dances so as you don't get stepped on.

Sure is cold here. I'm used to seeing my breath in 7-11s, but not in libraries and cafeterias. I heard they are keeping it cold to accommodate the visiting clan of teen ice giants.