You came on your own, that's how you leave

Murphy's Law for the CS student, corolary #36436
No matter how well and decent your program looks like to you, nor how much you tested it, it's flaky. At the day to hand it out, the teacher will find it crashes in a way you never even thought possible, for a reason you didn't even know you had to consider in the code. So you're left for two hours, racking your brains and not really understanding what you had to change, when it's all about putting/adding an extra if-else condition or just using a different library function. So you get evaluated at the END of the class like some speshul kid even though you had it "done" for days.

It's happened TWICE this semester-- no, this month.

But at least I'm free from deadlines! :D Well, almost...

And I bought Aqua + the first two Aria volumes ♥ I was only going to buy Aria #1, but #2 has Akatsuki and Al so... *hangs head*

Now just waiting for my packet to arrive, and all my Christmas self-presents will be mine >)

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Por cierto, la tarjeta de mi tío rebotó mientras pagaba mi hosting ;_; Lo curioso es que el hosting como tal sí pasó, pero el pago de la base de datos no. Algún español me podría hacer el pago del MySQL de Aruba.it entre esta noche y mañana? ;_; Son sólo 8 eurines y pico. Prometo depositarlo en el banco apenas pueda.

ETA: IOU 8.40€ to Estefanía.

Yuletide! (sticky general post)

Whoa. I went through a lot of flailing and anxiety before opening my (REAL) assignment email. I was just SO SCARED I'd get something hard to write, you know? I'm normally someone who only writes the characters she's comfortable with, which is why I never signed up before to Secret Santa games. I even had to go through my app two days ago to remove a couple of fandoms I had seconds thoughts for (and considering my gremlin email, I'm glad I did!)

So I open the email. I read the fandom I offered. And then I breathe. I'm sure I can write this couple! Meaning that I won't feel weird or WTFed, because luckily they're characters I really like and I know I can have fun coming up with a plot for them.

Then it's amusing, because I check the other three fandoms and there's this character listed in one of them that, while I've never attempted to write him/her and I didn't offer the fandom, I reckon it would be so sweet to write introspection and family-oriented gen for. So now I'm thinking I could write that request as well because it's made of win.

So I don't know XD I'll attempt to do both. If it doesn't work for one, then I'll just focus on the other. We'll see. Besides, just by poking a bit I've found betas for both fandoms.

I'm so relieved. I really am. I can do this person.

I could do a funny comment about the fandoms, but it would be too revealing and I'm not allowed. And now you can skip the next part because it doesn't concern you :P

( 'Dear Santa' letter )