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Uhhhhhh WHAT?! Who is this person writing a blog post on Classroom Cartoons?

It's me guys :)

Long hiatus, I know, I know, you've all forgotten about me by now but I'm at it again. Apparently.

UPDATES ON MY LIFE!

I'm in my last year at university now so I guess I should update that description on my front page. Next semester will hopefully be the last time I will be paying for four months of boredom and social awkwardness. Oh how I'll miss it....

I'm taking five courses this semester because I love pain and every class has AT LEAST one group project which is just the best. I'm also working at a place that I really like but guess what! I'm not getting paid to be there! Woohoo! I'm an intern! In fact, sometimes, I actually PAY* to work there! Yay me!

And now onto the socially awkward blog post you all came here to read:

In one of my classes I'm doing a group project with my sister and this other girl we will call Quiettalker McNeedstotalklouder. Quiettalker is a great girl, but I have never met someone who needs a class in How to be Normal more than myself!

Quiettalker is, let me say this right, she is a...very...quiet talker. And it takes all my control not to yell at her. I have this strange reaction to her, the quieter she talks, the louder I get. It's like I'm trying to get the point across that we're allowed to talk in class when we're working on a project but also I'm just so angry at her because I can't hear her that I start yelling everything to get some of the frustration out.

Maybe we should take that How to be Normal class together....

Anyways, after the fifth time I say "what?" I just nod my head like I know what she's talking about. I can't wait for this project to be over and I won't have to listen to her whispers any more.

In case you were wondering, this is not what any of my profs look like:

How I Learned to Deal with Stress

My dear, dear friends. It has been so long since my last post! I honestly thought I would manage at least one more post during anxiety month but I guess I overestimated my capabilities. Although technically it's been more than a month, anxiety month is not yet over (so I AM doing another post! yay me!), tomorrow I have a final project due and have to do a group presentation and then the next day another final project and presentation. Yet somehow I managed to make it through this rough time in the semester. And now for the funny story...

So my sister and I decided to be healthy back in September and then in January we decided to step it up cuz we were going to Florida. Well after Florida we kept at it and started doing a fitness regime from bodybuilding.com or something like that and we basically starting lifting weights. Now for anyone who knows me they know that I have the noodle arms like no other. I had no definition whatsoever in my biceps so when I say "weight lifting" I mean that I started out using like 5lbs dumbbells and, sometimes, even 3 lbs! AND IT WAS HARD!

Well, now we're at the end of our eighth week which meant today we had to take pictures of our progress so far. We honestly didn't think there was much difference from week four and we had this brilliant idea to use a two for one coupon for spray tanning which we figured would make us look better in our progress pics.

Remember how I said I have two presentations in the next two days?

It was a terrible and awesome idea!

We looked so ripped in our progress pics but in real life it was a whooooole different story!

Have you ever walked by a mirror and started laughing at your own reflection? Or walked into a room and started laughing at the person sitting in there who simultaneously starts laughing at you for the same reason?

We look (still look) ridiculous and awesome. So I drew a picture of it.

My porcelain skin has never been this colour before! I look like I just spent a month in Mexico. Tomorrow is gonna be just awesome standing in front of my class, 10 shades darker than I was last week....Did I mention I was skipping my class tonight? For obvious reasons.

Cowboy Kitty

Hello friends,

Today is the last day before anxiety month, actually I could probably stretch it to Sunday being the last day but I'm gonna try to actually not procrastinate this weekend.

What I mean is, today is the last day before I NEED to start studying for midterms and working on group/final projects. And let me tell you, I've got a lot of group projects to work on and midterms to study for. Frick I hate this semester.

In honour of the last day before anxiety month (by which I mean now til April), I'm throwing a party! Some friends are down for reading break and we're gonna have some nice social time at my house playing good natured board games, drinking warm milk and snacking on tea cookies.

Yup.

This party definitely will NOT involve jello shots, drinking games, or potentially racist costumes. That's just not how we roll...

And now the cutest picture I have ever drawn that has nothing to do with a certain costume party I may or may not be throwing:

That is one bad ass cowboy kitty. Just look at that scowl, so cute and angry at the same time!

R-R-R-Reading Break!!

So I just got back from Florida and have since decided that I will become one of those people that lives in Florida during the winter.

I am very upset that I came home and it is still February.

Even though it was like unseasonably cold while we were in Florida, it was still warmer than it is here and I want it to at least be spring now. I can't handle any more winter.

Also, while in Florida me and my super-cool crew went to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter A.K.A. Harry Potter Land and we totally rocked the nerds. It was a very good time, lots of rides, lots of shopping and tons of quoting and showing off how nerdy we are. 

We drank ButterBeer! And the Triwizard Cup was purchased for future use as an epic King's Cup. It glows.

Anyways, onto my latest masterpiece. This little baby was drawn during CheerFest or as I liked to call it: The Cheerpocalypse. 

Oh and Happy Valentine's Day everyone, I hope you're all as awesome as me and spending it watching tv and eating Harry Potter candy from Honeydukes with your family.

Award Winning Social Skills

So, you know how everyone is always like "OMG I am so awkward! Awkward Turtle! LOLZ" and they think that it's all cute and endearing to other people and that they are some kind of Zooey Deschanel-esque awkward-but-awesome-and-totally-hot girl because of it?

That is not me. I sincerely wish that could be me but you would have to take off the "cute and endearing" part and replace it with "weird and no one wants to be my friend".

A Puppy Studying-Cute and Endearing like I will Never Be

Examples:

The second week of school my E-Marketing class was put into groups with an e-mailed list of who was in what group and told to do an assignment (SIDENOTE: we had a week of snow days(awesome) so no one really knew who each other was). So, we e-mailed each other and completed the assignment without every seeing each others faces.

Last week, in class, I sit down at my computer and start preparing myself for 3 hours of learning about stuff I see/do every day on the internets. Slowly the room starts filling up and some girl sits down beside me with a boy on her other side and some high school-looking BFFS from other classes all sit around me and they all seem to know each other and dress like models and remind me of the cast from The O.C.

WELL, the class starts and I totally wasn't jealous that the girl beside me kept talking to the guy on her other side while no one would talk to me and I thought to myself "hmm that guy looks really familiar, I think his name is LightBulb and he is in my group...maybe I should say something to him about the assignment. Nahhhh"

Later:

"LightBulb seems to know this girl beside me from some other class, wait, are they talking about group projects? I've never seen her before and there was a girl in my group who hasn't made it to class yet, maybe that's her..."

Later:

"I think my group has been sitting beside me for the last two hours and I haven't said one word to them! If I say something now I'll look like a total douche for not talking to them at the break!"

Teacher tells everyone to get in their groups and start working on an assignment:

"Ohhhh crap how am I supposed to tell them I'm in their group now! Oh god they're looking around for me! What do I do??"

I then proceeded to turn to my right and say "Oh I'm in your group by the way" and then smile as nicely(creepily) as I could because I'm stuck with this group for the rest of the semester and I want to be included in their fun little O.C. club.

THANKFULLY they actually were my group and I was spared the awful torment of working with them for awhile and then finding out that whoops my group is actually on the other side of the room!

And please, if there was some way I could have turned that into something cute and endearing, please, please let me know because, if I'm being honest, that was definitely not the first time that has happened to me.

Oh, Hello Again!

Well hey there!

I know, I know, I took a huge break from blogging after my last post. I realized I had some major rage-ahol issues and shouldn't be putting that shit on the internets for all the creeps to see.

HAHAHA ya right!

That's what the internets are for! Raging, creeping, and trolling. AMIRITE?

...Please don't troll my blog. Please. I WILL RAGE ON YOU!

Moving on. So Christmas is over and also Birstmas and I am now 21 years of age and it is already 2012. (side note: Mayans, I have spent my whole life in school, you better be freaking wrong!)

New Years was quite the gong show. I'm sure you all know what I mean: friends re-runs, popcorn, apple juice and bed by 10:30!

I think my pants just caught on fire....

School is starting up again next week so I'm sure there will be plenty more group projects and awkward situations coming my way. Can't wait.

Here's a giraffe learning to skate:

UPDATE: So I wrote this little post like a week ago and forgot to publish it and now my first week of school is over and I already have homework but I still decided to post it anyways cuz I guess I'm a little lazy and didn't want to write another one. On the plus side, I was told while drawing that giraffe that it was very nice.