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i've been tagged by [personal profile] fick!

FICLET MEME
comment with a pairing and/or prompt and i'll write something short for it.

idk who else still uses dw these days, but feel free to tag yourself!!! other than that, i'm in my final year of college ahhhhhhhh acire has become a Senior Student of College. we just finished our first week of classes, but i already feel the weight of classwork hanging down on me. also, i'm sitting in this freshman lounge rn bc i'm trying to do laundry here instead of at the hotel, and this giant group of freshman boys have invaded the place and are banging away at the piano here and i'm losing Cool.
aerogare: (animanga; uh oh)
i'm hoping to god that i don't screw up this semester, that i won't be giving into my demons and that i will be able to make it out of this year alive and happy and with good grades
aerogare: (animanga; nevermind the rain)
i'm back home for summer with no job prospects and no life basically

so have a meme!

Comment and I will:

1. Tell you why I friended you. (If I remember...)
2. Associate you with something. A fandom, a song, a colour, a piece of fruit. SOMETHING.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Associate you with a character/pairing.
5. Give you a "this or that."
6. Link you to a random youtube song that I like.
7. Tell you my favorite user pic(s) of yours.
8. Tell you that you must spread this disease in your LJ.
aerogare: (animanga; lower your walls.)
TRUST NOBODY TODAY
aerogare: (animanga; nevermind the rain)
2012 is only less than an hour from being finished, so i decided to post something to see through my year, ahah. (yes, you're not dreaming, this is indeed a post.) however, since i really don't remember much from this year, i'm afraid this will be a short post. nevertheless! we shall dive into the wonderful year of 2012, i guess.

in general retrospection, the first half of the year was pretty awesome. second semester of freshman year of college saw me hitting the books more often because i finally got off my ass to study, although there were some bumpy starts in the beginning. nonetheless, i pulled through, and i look back at that semester fondly, though now that i think of it, there were some very notable strains in the semester.

summer, oh summer. i went back home for a week after my semester ended before returning to good ol' disgustingly hot and humid rochester for a summer semester of learning because i decided that i'd become a brain and cognitive sciences major. and while i ended up with an a for the class for bcs, my painting class was left rather unfinished with only one of three assigned paintings finished and one half-done. my bcs class had been brutal for me, three hours every day from 9 to 11, and thus began my lovely transition to coffee drinking.

(also i did shit for that class and cried a lot when i had to cram weeks-worth of studying into a single night before the three exams given.)

the rest of summer dissolved into a lazy sleepfest with mother concurrently nagging me to get a job and learn to drive my own ass around. suffice to say, neither of the demands had been fulfilled. (i hold hope for next summer though. 2013, don't let me down!!)

entering sophomore year with fall semester, i reverted back to the state of mind i had my freshman year around this same time, and boy did it affect my gpa. during this time, i became progressively unhappier with myself and my chosen paths, and as of yet, i am currently in the wind about what i want to do in life.

class-wise, i took the liberty of skipping many, many classes bc i was either using it supplement for another class or bc i just couldn't give enough of a shit. and nearing the end of the semester, i grew more and more guilty with putting off work and more and more unmotivated to do anything at all for my classes while still lamenting the state of my gpa.

(as an aside, i ended up with three a-, one a, and one b, which is amazing bc i didn't expect even a b for some of my classes, though my gpa still tanked a couple of points. we'll work on it next semester.)

i'm hoping that spring will bring a better acire to the table. having finally escaped the toxicity of fall 2012, i've been floating around aimlessly these days, still winding down from the state of emotional upheaval of the days leading up to finals week. i'm still unmotivated, and i teeter between fearing that i'm hitting depression rather accurately on the nose and assuring myself that it's just me giving myself excuses for my poor academic performance. still, it is frightening, and i debate about whether i should talk to the counselors once i return because i don't want this affecting my life next year.

now, on a happier note, i've returned to writing! amazing, isn't it? and the fandom of choice is teen wolf, surprise surprise. if you've been following me on twitter, much of my recent tweets have been something about tw fic or the ever-popular derek/stiles pairing. yes, i am a shipper. and i hate the name 'sterek'. please don't ever bring it up. pfft. anyway, my productivity in this area has been shockingly high, especially during the final weeks of this semester while i was looking for something to escape into for a while. hopefully this productivity can continue because otherwise, i'll be facing another dry spell for at least another three years.

(shameless pimping over here too: i'm calculus on ao3 where my fics are archived, so if you want to look and laugh at my fumbling attempts, heh, go there. i always want crit on my work, so if you've got some, please send it my way! :3)

and so, my final comments on 2012:
→ fuck
→ you
→ world
→ also, congrats to obama on securing another four years in the white house. a late response to the elections, but i was seriously worried about the rest of my college years had romney actually taken the seat and my future, so kudos, obama. thanks for saving my ass.
→ i hope to never see the backside of this year ever again~

here's to looking at you, 2013. you better be worth this grief.

(ps. insomnia is a fucking bitch omg i spent the last few days tossing and turning until at least 3 or 4 in the morning)
aerogare: (stock; class has begun.)
i'm alive!!! i never died!!! i actually had this whole graphics post planned out with pictures of my summer of baking but i got way sidetracked over the last few pics and then it just never. finished. FFFFFffff i'll post those up eventually though. :) what the hell, i'll just post them now. AHAHAH

on to life things. um, i'm like shit scared that i'm balding now?????? like i looked at my hair today and i was like, 'welp.' like the crown of my head (or wherever the hair starts to part??? like that part at the top of your head part........) is like growing in skin space and i can totally see the lack of hair i got up there which is fucking terrifying bc i'm not even twenty yet and i am facing like middle-aged woman balding??? or so it seems anyway. my hairline's kind of going up too, but idk man. advice???? somebody help??? stop my hair biology????????

erm. school-wise, i'm taking like three linguistics class right now and one bcs (brain and cognitive science) class and one art (intro to photograpy!) class, and i'm getting swamped by these two particular linguistics classes. like intro to ling and intro to grammatical systems last year were super fun and relatively easy??? but intro to semantics and intro to phonetics/phonology is like pulling teeth for me and super fucking difficult for me to understand ESP SEMANTICS??? BC IT'S LIKE LOGIC BASED AND FUCK LOGIC???? I CAN'T UNDERSTAND LOGIC WHY ARE YOU IN MY FUCKING LINGUISTICS CLASSES GO THE FUCK AWAY ugh

my second pair of midterms are this week, so i gotta study a lot on sunday ffffffffff and cry to myself bc it's semantics and bcs and i'm just not that great with this material at /all/. hopefully i'll actually get studying done at work tomorrow. :\

i've been cooking a lot this semester! i got my own kitchen this year bc the place i chose to live lets us have a kitchen and bathroom kjsdflakjla ;~; i got a suitemate, and i'm slowly making her learn how to cook bc really, at this age, you gotta learn how to cook /something/. and it's been a real stress reliever (although the amount of money i spend on groceries alone omigod) to be able to just make food, so that's been fun. i haven't gotten to making macarons here yet, but i've got my almonds and everything! i just gotta test my oven a couple more times bc the last few times i've made cookies.........they weren't. yeah. but, we'll see. :)

socially, i've been making a few unwanted splashes in my little pool of friendship. dramas have arisen, and are currently still going on, with me being a big instigator, so yeah. not really fun on that front. i've got a ridiculously big mouth, and it's landed me in quite a bit of hot water recently, sigh. we'll see how things turn out, i guess. it wouldn't be a stretch to say i might lose some friends in the near future, aha.

okay, onto the photos. fff these were my trip to the highline in nyc with my friends (it's becoming quite a tradition to go there every time we're on break, apparently) and two separate attempts at macarons. :) welp excuse my coloring i went on a little trip to la-la land )
aerogare: (animanga; uh oh)
baking macarons and my mind is going crazy????? this is killing me the amount of mistakes i've been making tonight one by one what the flipping fuck man what the flipping fuck????? i could just cry.

picture post will be coming up with further in-detail whingings and update on my summer! be on the lookout! lolololol

welp

Jun. 30th, 2012 12:44 am
aerogare: (game; swoon baby.)
i'm done with my summer classes \o\

so now i'm spending the summer watching the rest of the nanny with sophia and pretending that i'm living in a vacuum where money issues and my future doesn't matter. i would like a job, but it's not going swell........

i should learn to drive, i guess.
aerogare: (stock; class has begun.)
guys i just saw avengers and it was awesome. i have no spoiler-related feelings except ) but i just love this movie and i want to read everybody else's reactions to it and all the fic bc holy shit this movie akjfk;lasdjfalkjsa;

i need to go see it again.


aside from that, college has ended~ and i have officially completed my first year of college, go me! i'm home for a tiny week-long break before returning to the university for summer classes because i'm a super huge masochist, clearly, ahahahaha.

what's giving me the most anxiety at the moment is this research assistant position i applied for and still haven't gotten a response back. please please pleaseeeee give me any kind of answer i don't even care if i don't get it (well, of course i care, i want the position, clearly, but) i just need to know what the final verdict is and i'm just basically hanging on the ropes here. SIGH.

anyway, this week will be me trying to burn off the five to eight pounds i've gained since coming to college (CRYING) and marathoning any and all tv shows that come to my fancy. :) give me some recs, gaiz, or i'll just end up watching the nanny again and again and again and again
aerogare: (animanga; hardly impressive.)
hi i've decided to close this dw because i'm not posting anything productive and i've been pretty elusive lately. it's been nice knowing you guys.




















































APRIL FOOLS ahahahahahahahahaha shut up i have to get my kicks somewhere okay
aerogare: (game; pulling my head apart omg stress)
you know what i hate? papers. i mean, i despise tests too, especially when all your textbook chapter reads just pile up and then you're left with barely two days to read everything and memorize a unit before the finale of your life, but god, papers. i don't care how many pages it is--one page, ten pages, five pages, thirteen pages--they're all just such a mess and menace to have to get through. my attention span is never long enough to keep myself focused on a paper from start to finish, and so it always takes me years to complete an assignment.

like take last week, for example. i had a one-paged paper, ONE PAGE and i stayed up until seven in the fucking morning trying to get myself to write that shit. and you know what? i probably finished it in less than hour when i realized the janitors were coming in and kept making nose around 6:20ish and the sky was slightly beginning to lighten. all i had to do was just buckle down and write, but instead, the majority of my time was spent in the lounge trolling tumblr and pretending that anybody was sane enough to be awake from 8PM to 7AM in the north american continent.

i think the main lesson to be taken away from this is that i need to find friends on the other side of the world and just troll them until i die.

also i have two papers due this week, one due on monday, and two tests to study for, which includes like around nine chapters to read/study from altogether in consecutive days. consecutive days holy mother of gods. somebody up there hates me, i can feel it. fucking college. fucking procrastination. fucking idjit that i am.

burns down everything.
aerogare: (animanga; hardly impressive.)
no really, see? /steps out of coffin for a bit

heh. i've been a little occupied with midterms, and then spring break, and then general lack of sleep that prevented me from enjoying life. also, i just got really lazy and decided to troll tumblr rather than spill all my woes unto dw, but fear not! i remain a spring chicken, and i am springing back into action!


....................


yeah.














i had more to say, but i've got club to go to right now BLUH LKSDJFKLSHDl;jkasdlfja i can't believe i'm willingly sacrificing sleep for activities. SIGHSKDHFKLS: also my period started and it's like the niagara falls' come to occupy my vagina get outtttt
aerogare: (stock; class has begun.)
i hate french. that is all i have to say. i seriously just cannot stand french right now aklsdjf;lasdjhfa;sldf
aerogare: (animanga; hardly impressive.)
i give up on python goodbye programming

i'll see you again in a semester hopefully when i'm more receptive to learning your language
aerogare: (stock; class has begun.)
also my hair smells like smoke right now

not the smoke from cigarettes but like /smoke/


wood smoke


forests



burning



down








i made s'mores in a pit today heh my only consolation (though my feet almost froze off)
aerogare: (animanga; uh oh)
everything is python programming and psych and french compositioning and i just want to kill myself right now

HOW DO I PROGRAM IN PYTHON???????? WHY IS THIS SO HARD I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW DO I MAKE THE COMPUTER UNDERSTAND WHAT I WANT THIS WASN'T EVEN ANYWHERE NEAR THE NOTES IN THE POWERPOINTS OR THE TEXTBOOK PROFESSOR WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME

i


am



going




to




kill





someone






and read more shoujo manga bc



FUCK



THIS



SHIT




















but not really because i really need a good grade for this so i can have a better gpa and i just want to die i do not want to be spending the days leading up to my birthday doing nothing but homework i am the worst student ever i hate this i hate life i hate python why am i even taking programming programming should just die because i hate it and it hates me back



also [personal profile] scout i'll get to the challenge icons in a century


ATTENDS ATTENDS and all that jazz
aerogare: (stock; it rides upon us.)
hay gaiz how's it been ehehehee

i've made a little tiny not-goal to keep up with this journal, so here i am with another semi-regular update??? (hope i don't jinx myself lol) this week's been boring, being the week before i go back to school and torture!!! heh. i've been sleeping until like 2-3 in the afternoon and then getting up to go online until like 7-8 wherein dinner is eaten and then buffy the vampire slayer is marathoned. |D it's been that kind of a week.

so, buffy's kind of interesting. i spoiled myself entirely, of course, so i have no interest to watch all seven seasons in whole; i finished the first season entirely, did around half of season two until angel turned evil, and then skipped around season three and so forth. i skipped until once more, with feeling, and the series finale because that's how i roll ehehehehee. uh, overall, it's been interesting and successfully creepy since i keep watching them into like 3-4 in the morning ahahahaha. but, now i'm ready to move onto angel so i can watch cordelia blossom into a half-demon goddess ehehehehe. and then after that, charmed! |D no life, i have.

also in this week's agenda (or the remainder of this week's agenda) is to attempt macarons once more! i bought a new coffee grinder and i will whip those eggs until frothy and foamy and meringue-y and i will kill these cookies until i get my feet and no cracked tops akdlfja;lksda other than that, i may try for some other things like milk bread or scones heehehehehe. i'll take pictures when i can find my camera lol. one minute it's here, the next, poof!

and also, icons! i will get to that soon fffffffff we'll see how the end of this break goes. :D
aerogare: (animanga; hardly impressive.)
hello my ducklings. i have returned from my harried week and will now spend the rest of next week doing nothing eheheheheh. it's not really something i'm looking forward to, though, misleading as my generally 'ehehehehe'-ly gleeful laughter is, since i don't even have anything to do online.......... i could always icon, i suppose, but i'd rather use a mouse than a touchpad. :|

anyway, so this week's been pretty eventful for me, having made an impromptu (of sorts) dinner date with friends on wednesday in an attempt to get myself out of the house, gone out to the city on thursday with friends again (though that was already planned out beforehand like two weeks in advance), and stayed in on friday to recover my excessive walking and eventual limp ahahaha, helped out the quiz bowl as substitute moderator and buzzer-keeper/timer on saturday until four and went off for sushi at night with family, and went out for brunch today with friends again! then i came back and watched buffy the vampire slayer until just an hour ago. eheheheheeh.

so i spent a bit of money this week on food and clothes and tickets because city stuff is /expensive/ booooo, but it was fun! :D i had a lot of fun this week, so it's all good, hee hee. now i have to go off and buy my textbooks for ridic cheap (or wait until i get back to campus to get a better not-parental-controlled!internet) for my classes next semester ughguhgugh. i am sorely tempted to order sushi for the rest of my days here, but alas. my wallet is dead.

sigh. how's life, gaiz? :)
aerogare: (animanga; uh oh)
i've walked too much these past two days ughaksldjfksaj fs my feet are killing me. um real post maybe tomorrow because i spent the entire day today without sleep at all, so i've been up for almost 28 hours and i need to crash

right


now




bye





find me later
aerogare: (animanga; nevermind the rain)
i promised [personal profile] parlor another post so i can hoard all her comments ehehehe so uh. here's more expository information about moi! (that's not the right word is it.....) meme stolen from lore hehehe ilu [personal profile] allegory

♦ name you go by
my name is acire! or rather, it's my internet handle (ohohoho i'm a mysterious multi-faceted character aren't i) and i choose to call myself because it's still my name ehehehe. i like to think myself a witty whippersnapper who's really clever (because my ego does love it when i touch it gently), so i chose to name myself acire because (drumroll) my name irl is erica. ehehehe. my dirty little secret exposed. acire is erica spelt backwards, chaps.

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and there you have it, folks. a very long detailed explanation of just who acire is. bleh. this took me a while to type up ahaahahahah.