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imeric12 @ 2008-07-20T21:17:00

2008-07-21T01:19:08Z

So, I started learning Python so I don't feel like I did nothing of any academic importance this summer. After learning a bit, it seems to be an amazingly useful and, dare I say it, fun to use language. I... think I'm in nerd love?

imeric12 @ 2008-07-11T19:46:00

2008-07-11T23:53:33Z

I woke up this morning with a mission.

Today, you see, is July 11--7/11--Free Slurpee Day----meaning that it was not only my right, but my responsibility to get as much free slurpee as I could handle. After work, around 3, I busted down Donny's door and took him with me. We printed out a map, then went and got Auston, then embarked on our journey.

Our original plan was to hit 33 711s, but unfortunately we started too late in the day for this to be possible, as many locations were out of cups or done participating by 6pm. We did, however, manage to down 12 slurpees each, (except Auston who's a gigantic pussy douchebag quitter man) one of the more unpleasant experiences of our young lives.

What a badass fucking day.

Unfortunately I'm now getting a horrible sugar crash and I'm a little pissed at everything around me.

imeric12 @ 2008-07-09T03:19:00

2008-07-09T07:30:44Z

Hmm. So I'm having this kind of weird existentialy 3am freakout concerning how fucking weird the past is, and I'm seriously having to restrain urges to get rid of all records of the past just because i suddenly feel as though nothing in the past is truly worth recording because everything is just fleeting moments anyway. [this coming from me, who can't bring myself to delete 3-4 year old aim logs just in case I ever want to read some of them again] This is such a strange freakout because I'm not even close to being depressed, nor am i worried about anything specific. It's just 3am, I'm really fucking tired, and the past seems really strange all the sudden.

god damn you George Orwell, your books make me think more than I feel comfortable thinking! (reading Down and Out in Paris and London and it's quite good so far)

okay I'm giving myself a stomach ache so sleep time. I'll be much better in the morning hahah.

imeric12 @ 2008-07-03T17:00:00

2008-07-03T21:00:26Z

Yesssssssss 4th of July Twilight Zone Marathon!

imeric12 @ 2008-06-29T01:50:00

2008-06-29T06:15:56Z

Heh, so I never really know what to write here any more. I sorta feel as though I should be using this as a comedy outlet like I used to back in 9th-10thish grades, but I guess I just haven't been as comedically inspired in a long time as I used to be back then. I dunno.

In regards to life... it's amazing. I've been continuing to spend most of my time with Megan... she makes me really happy.

In regards to right this second.. Casey just informed me that Girl Talk released a new album online ala Radiohead (choose your own price.) For those of you who don't know, Girl Talk is an artist who makes his music exclusively by sampling other songs. Usually it's just interesting to listen to once but because it's heavily rap based, I can't stand to listen much longer. This album is done a bit differently, however. While still heavy on the rap, the samples he uses last a lot longer, making the songs flow better, rather than jumpy jumbles of music. We're up to #5 so far and totally digging it.

In regards to tomorrow... Going to buy sandals =x. Watching the rest of Arsenic & Old Lace with Megan, then going to Grzym's grad party I believe.

Okay, that's all.

And for anyone interested, you can get the album at http://74.124.198.47/illegal-art.net/__girl__talk___feed__the__anima.ls___/

imeric12 @ 2008-06-16T23:41:00

2008-06-17T03:52:36Z

This is a glimpse into an average week for me next semester.

I decided that filler classes fucking suck, so instead of bullshitting 15 credits, I'm just gonna finish up French this semester and only take 12 total. Unfortunately the only open section was at 9am, meaning that I'll have an hour of French, then an hour of Swedish back to back. After that, however, I'll have several hours to relax and get myself up to north campus for 281, which will be hell on earth. However, I have no class on Friday. That's fucking hot.

I'm sort of considering this a "get back on my feet" semester. I fucked up a lot last semester, so I'll be using this one to recuperate. Though I won't have as many classes, the classes I have will probably be a bit more work. I plan to have my GPA back up to something reasonable come December, though. And then in the winter I'll take Calc 3 and kick it's ass this time.

I just got back to St. Clair from Traverse City a few hours ago. I had a really good time... we ate at lots of ridiculously tasty gourmet restaurants. We also went to the dunes on Lake Michigan and walked several miles and stuff. Yesterday we got to watch a storm come in over the bay and hit full force from our 14th (13th, actually, stupid superstition) floor room with a panoramic view... sweeeeet.

Tomorrow is useless, then Wednesday I believe I'm going to Cedar Point with most of my family. That's exciting because I didn't think I'd be able to go this year, but I would much rather have gone tomorrow.

In the meantime, I've become addicted to Super Mario Galaxy again, so I think I might have to bring my Wii home to Warren after the camping trip next weekend (especially since my video card is for some reason out of commission on my laptop, so it can't play very many games any more =x)

imeric12 @ 2008-06-11T01:17:00

2008-06-11T05:30:10Z

Today I went down to Polish Village with Megan and her family to celebrate her waaaaay belated birthday. We went to a store with a ton of Polish stuff, then to an awesome bakery, and then to a restaurant where I had the best potato pancakes/pierogies that I've ever had. Mmmmmmm.

I've been spending lots of time with Megan lately, and I've been very happy with life. I won't drivvel on about it, however, as this is more or less a brief update, and I'm sure most of you don't want to hear over and over again that which can be summed up in the following phrase: Eric loves life and Megan is an awesome girlfriend =)

In somewhat of the same vein though in a contrasting direction, I do owe some of my friends a little more hang-out time than they've been getting. Unfortunately, this debt won't be repaid any time soon, as I'm going up to Traverse City with my family on Thursday for my grandparents 50th anniversary. While it always sucks leaving everyone in Warren, I'm really excited to go up north and spend some time with my family who I've seen (as oddly as this sounds for a teenager to say) appallingly little of. I'll be spending a lot of next week up in St. Clair as well, because my aunt/uncle/cousin will be staying in town for a while. Then next week I'll be going on the second annual Guys' Camping Trip. I'm really pumped, we're gonna have a blast.

Sleeeeeep time.

imeric12 @ 2008-05-31T16:14:00

2008-05-31T20:28:06Z

OH MY GOD

MOUNTAIN DEW: SUPERNOVA TASTES JUST LIKE PITCH BLACK

I LACK CAMERA TO PICTORIALLY REPRESENT HOW EXCITED THIS MAKES ME

WAIT NO I DON'T

imeric12 @ 2008-05-29T22:48:00

2008-05-30T02:55:47Z

Summmmmmerrrrrrrrrrrrrr rocccckkkkkkksssssssssssssssssssss

And I'm still addicted to this new Islands album.

imeric12 @ 2008-05-24T06:22:00

2008-05-24T10:23:53Z

so i just walked home from the midnight showing of pulp fiction in royal oak

and i just got home
and i can barely move my hands or any part of my body

but i'm fgonna go buy a blueberry muffin and then collapse foreever and everrr

imeric12 @ 2008-05-23T19:23:00

2008-05-23T23:31:05Z

I'll be so surprised if I'm not dead by the end of the summer... my food intake today so far has been:

3am: Chicken Quesadilla, Arizona Iced Tea
2pm: Half turkey sandwich, water
5-7pm: box of Mike&Ikes, bottle of Yoohoo

And now I'm debating whether or not I'm hungry enough for an ezmac. hahahah.

I got lots of new musics from Bryan last night, and it's all amazing so far.
13ghosts, Fleet Foxes, Ghost of the Russian Empire, Holy Fuck, In the Wake of Giants, Port O'Brien, then got some Barenaked Ladies because Megan really likes them and I've never listened to much of them, and I got (but have not yet listened to) Studio, Videohippos, and the new Wolf Parade album... mmmmm.

Okay ezmac time.

imeric12 @ 2008-05-18T00:50:00

2008-05-18T04:59:40Z

okay, so I guess if I don't update my lj every 23 seconds I get yelled at by someone who forgot to take THEIR midol.

so anyway =D

I've mostly spent this week hanging out with Megan, as well as Donny, Matt, Auston, Chad, Calan, Chris, Dustin, etc.

Today, worked our fucking garage sale for half the day... which mainly just consisted of me sitting in the garage, watching The Simpsons on my laptop and hoping that most of the people decide not to buy anything so I don't have to get up. After that, we got thai food and watched the hockey game. Around 7 I went to play tennis with Megan and her sister. I totally rocked =D Then we dropped her sister off at her house and chilled here for a while and just watched some random movie on cw50. it was retardedly predictable. At some point or another, Christina's mom called Megan, so we went and hung out with Christina's parents (Tina was at a musical at aaw) and played some vicious games of Pass the Pig, hahaha. Eventually Tina came back, so we played one more round, then headed home. Now I'm sleepy but I don't feel like sleeping. hungry for once, so I'm taking advantage of it by wolfing down leftover thai. and oatmeal cream pies and black licorice and iced tea. woooo.

Tomorrow I'm going to the fair with Jenny because she wants to buy an elephant ear. Carnies are creepy and I have no money, but it should be a pretty good time.

I like summer =)

imeric12 @ 2008-05-14T16:37:00

2008-05-14T20:39:06Z

Ha, so I applied for a job at Barnes & Noble today, with Donny. It's gonna be hilarious when I get the job and he doesn't =D

We went to Tower with Tina to visit Dougherty, and Gryzm almost threw me off the upper story down into the commons... I don't think I've ever been more afraid in my life.

mmk c'est tout.

imeric12 @ 2008-05-12T23:26:00

2008-05-13T03:27:02Z

*token vague happy lj entry*

imeric12 @ 2008-05-12T00:49:00

2008-05-12T04:58:22Z

This summer is getting better and better =) I do feel pretty safe saying I'm the happiest I've been in months, probably even more. And things only seem to be looking up.

Only problem is, time's collapsing really fucking fast. May is flying by already. Ah well.

Currently up in St. Clair... I really wanna go swimming in the river one day but it's still like -5483498398 degrees, so that'd probably be unwise. Getting up bright and early to go to Warren tomorrow though, and I think I'll be there all week, which is cool. Unfortunately the house goes up for sale at the end of the week so I'll either have to start living... discreetly or move into a room at the lab which is just creepy as hell and will more than likely be impossible to sleep late in.

The Pixies' Bossanova is such a good album for this mood hahaha.

imeric12 @ 2008-05-08T03:23:00

2008-05-08T07:27:21Z

So it has come to my attention that I've been neglecting my livejournal as of late. Oh dear.

Summer's been pretty cool so far. I've been back and forth from Warren and St. Clair a few times... spending time with people while in Warren, and doing not a lot except sitting on the computer in St. Clair. Currently the Warren house is almost prepped for selling... right now I'm sitting on a couch in my kitchen because all the carpets just got cleaned and can't have furniture on them yet.

I'd write more but I'm actually pretty tired, which is odd considering it's only 3:30. I've actually got plans in advance for tomorrow.. waking up some time in the morning to help move furniture around, then going to Royal Oak with Megan to celebrate her fiiiiiiiiiinally being finished with school, then going to see Cut Copy and Black Kids at the Magic Stick. Cooool.

Sleep now.

imeric12 @ 2008-04-22T12:11:00

2008-04-22T16:11:56Z

DONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE!

imeric12 @ 2008-04-21T13:44:00

2008-04-21T17:45:27Z

Mmmm, it's so nice outside:

...but so empty and desolate in here:

Took down all my posters, as well as our beds, and lots of other stuff yesterday. Now our room is echoey and boring and stuff =(

Ah well, in 22.75 hours I'll be donnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnne.

imeric12 @ 2008-04-15T04:58:00

2008-04-15T09:00:57Z

Spontaneous 2AM trips to MSU with Tina and Matt are pretty awesome. Though I felt sorta awkward roaming around East Lansing, I had a really good time hanging out with them and Donny. We went to Taco Bell and saw a drunk Irish guy (state + Irish = no surprise there), not to mention saw what has to be definitely the biggest MSU cliche I've ever seen:

Bahahaahahaha. Only at State, man.

Being this is the second night I've been up later than 5am due to road trips, I should really get to sleep now... i have a French final at 11 =( But then no more class! Woo! Life is good.

imeric12 @ 2008-03-31T05:23:00

2008-03-31T09:27:58Z

oh my, this weekend has been so crazy.

thursday night after writing that damned essay, I started driving back up to north but then decided to keep going, went up to ~fenton, then came back. I was gonna pull an all nighter, but it didn't work out because I feel asleep at like 7.

friday I went to see Leningrad Cowboys: Go America! with Katelyn. it was pretty awesome, and now I need to see the second one because the leningrad cowboys fucking rule. we drove around and chilled for a while afterwards, too.

saturday I drove down to cleveland to hang out with Amy all day. we watched movies and I got to go to a two-story target! but it doesn't count because it's in Ohio and therefore sucks.

thought I was gonna stay put today, but then at some point Andrew called me and needed a ride back up to Mt. Pleasant, so I went and got taco bell and drove him back up there. got back here at like 4:30, and now I actually am gonna pull an all nighter because I don't really wanna miss math and I know I will if I go to sleep now.

imeric12 @ 2008-03-28T03:33:00

2008-03-28T08:01:59Z

Mmmmm, just ain't nothin' like all nighters at the fish bowl!

I just wrote a really terrible paper about Jews. Eventually I'm gonna have to drive back up to north campus but it's all snowy outside, and I don't wanna.

I just read through like every lj entry in 2007, and I feel sorta bad that I didn't document it as well as I did past years of my life... I'd go whole months without lj entries, which sucks because 2007 was really a pretty pivotal year in my life. Ending high school, starting college, the end of the most important personal relationship in my life thusfar, the departure of good friends, the meeting of new people... there's so much.

this semester sucks. I'm seriously just terrible at life right now, hahah. doing bad in my classes, doing bad in my personal life, becoming more and more out of shape every day (not gaining weight, I'm manorexic. just going out of shape) it sorta feels like soon I'm just gonna turn into a blob and sink into the ground and no one will miss me. but then I think things like that and I can't stand to have that defeatist of an attitude. I'm more optimistic than that, I know it. If only I could actually apply it! Hmm.

I feel like I could go on complaining about things of that nature for a while, but I also just got done writing a 7 page essay, so fuck that shit.

I seriously need to start meeting people here. the only people I've met are people in my french class and people in my hallway, and I don't particularly hang out with anyone ever. next year will be nice.. being on the hill rather than north campus, and having a roommate who will actually encourage me to do something besides sit on the computer all day. not that dmw's a bad roommate for that or something, it'll just be different.

I wanna go climb a mountain. I want to drive until I hit lake michigan one day. I want to sleep under the stars one day. I want to have someone to be close to again. I want to be free of all this responsibility (not that I uphold most of it, but it'd be nice to at least be free of the guilt of not doing shit). I want to figure out a career I'd be happy with because I know if I take this path I'm gonna end up in some office job and go batshit insane by the age of 28. it's so weird considering my reserved personality compared to the personality I show to other people. I think I'm such a different person when I'm on my own. not in a creepy way or anything... I just think when I'm on my own, I'm my ideal personality, but then i become more reserved and different around other people. maybe. or maybe I just feel like that and it's not really true, i dunno.

lalallaal

I wish I could actually just pull an all nighter here but my car is just by a parking meter so I can't mother fuckaaaaaa

also
tomorrow I'm going to see "Leningrad Cowboys: Go America!" with DMW and Kelly and it's going to be amazing. it's playing at midnight at the state. then Saturday I'm waking up early and going to visit Amy in the state whose name must never be mentioned. then sunday I'm chillaxin' I suppose.

holy fuck shit there's very few days of class left this semester :o i dunno if that's good or bad.

liturgy is a word?

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand now I'm just looking through old pictures and drinking mountain dew. I'm so glad tomorrow is friday because I'll probably skip math and pull an awake-sleep kinda thing in history.

I feel like I need to be listening to music right now but there's no speakers on these computarz and I forgot mein headphones. I'll just have to listen to everything extra fucking loud in my car on the way back to le campus du nord.

(est-ce que tu aime l'omelette du enfant?)

ohhh crap that reminds me I have a french oral exam next week that I should probably get practice for. son'bitch. and a counselling appt so I should probably figure out some more classes I could possibly take because somehow I don't think the whole 12 credit semester idea is going to fly real well with my advisor.

if anyone bothered to read all this I'm vaguely impressed. pat on the back. and don't you fuckers skim through to the last line, read this, and then be all proud of yourself, or go back and read it or something. >:o

imeric12 @ 2008-03-28T02:06:00

2008-03-28T06:07:11Z

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Carter

that is one cool mother fucker right there.

he singlehandedly added an entire page to my paper <3333

imeric12 @ 2008-03-27T01:20:00

2008-03-27T05:21:56Z

Just went and saw The Weakerthans (/Christine Fellows/A. A. Bondy) with Bryan. They were pretty cool. I haven't really listened to much of their stuff, but I liked them a lot. Ooh, and we got there early, so we were front and center... just ain't nothin' like front row of a concert.

Now time to start on all the homework I put off doing the last 2 days =D

imeric12 @ 2008-03-26T11:42:00

2008-03-26T15:43:59Z

An announcement has been added in the "FRENCH 231 007 W08" site at CTools (https://ctools.umich.edu/portal)
Subject: We WILL have regular class at 11...
From: Lori Mc Mann
Date: Mar 26, 2008 8:30 am
Message:
Chers étudiants--
The GEO walkout has been called off, so we WILL have regular class today at 11. Hope you get this in time; please come if you can!
Best,
Lori

Ha, well it's a good thing I woke up at 11:45, I might've had to go to my first two classes today.

Unfortunately I didn't sleep straight to 2:30, so I still have to go to history >:o

who calls off a strike in the morning? Sorry GSIs, but I'm officially pissed at you.

imeric12 @ 2008-03-24T01:52:00

2008-03-24T05:57:53Z

Well, I had a pretty good weekend. Friday was Tina's. it's always cool seeing everyone. they actually got me to play poker/other games for a while, but I'm still not much of a fan of gambling (even with other people's money) meh. I also found out some interesting things. or an interesting thing I guess. maybe one day I'll be cool enough to even do something about it.

Saturday was the CCHA championship game, Michigan vs. Miami (Ohio). It was really an amazing game, and it rocked seeing them win the championship... now on to nationals where we kick Niagra's ass first round. Go Blue!

Sunday I just chilled out in St. Clair. The river looked really cool because it's a giant ice flow now (there was little to no ice last week, so I was surprised)

Not ready for more school... but at least this is a pretty easy week. once I get past my french test tomorrow morning, I've little to worry about. hopefully the gsi strike is on, I could go for another weekend right about now.