$1 for 8 minutes?!? Or How To Survive Camping (Part 2)

In an attempt to procrastinate and get as little sleep as possible for my 8am class tomorrow, here are some more camping survival tips!

• If you're rock climbing, and you find a shoe and it smells like death, then you will most likely find a corpse nearby.
• If you're rock climbing and you see a snake, stay where you are, panic and scream for your hiking partner and then calmly take another path back and return to camp.
• If you are hiking alone nerves may make you panic and think squirrels are bobcats, and lizards are snakes.
• Don't climb too high on the rocks or you may revert to a cat and get stuck.  your camping buddies won't like it if you have to get airlifted out, and if you fall and break your neck...well, you break your neck.
• When swimming in the shallows of the lake, If you look down while you're walking little schools of fish will scatter.  It gives you the satisfaction of feeling like Godzilla.

That's all for now.  Mostly because those are the only ones written in my sketchbook and i really shouldn't dig through anymore in my notebook until I finish this paper and get some sleep.  Stay tuned next time for more hints!

-Leah

Ah Dorm Life: but not in the dorms...

i hate pulling all nighters. I only pulled two last year, but between working on West Side Story, having drama 40 which makes me want to shoot myself (a paper due every class 2x a week, and 2x quizzes a week), an 8am class, no car and no time to do anything...damn. freshman year was hella easy compared to this.
so i figured the whole "ah dorm life" series thing, is basically just college, so even though i'm in an apartment now it's still sort of dorm life...just not so cramped and noisy.

I'm actually sitting in that bastard drama 40 class right now, but i figure i need to blog or i'll fall asleep. and at least it looks like i'm taking notes and not playing games or anything.

it's going to be random here for a bit. I'm basically just getting out what i need to get out so that i don't fall asleep.

it's 1 month to me being 19, and 1 month till west side closes and i get my life back before i start ASM-ing Book of Tink.
my sense of self is completely warped and i feel like i'm not myself when i look in the mirror because i've had so little sleep.
I want a pair of black skinny jeans for crew because they'll cover my ankles and i won't have to worry about wearing black socks.
i'm kind of glad i don't have a tv in my room right now, but eventually i need to get one...and figure out a way to get it because i still don't have a car/license.
i should have learned this last year, but pulling an all nighter and drinking too much coffee just makes things worse. at least there was no mint oreos this time.
speaking of coffee, thank god i have a coffee maker now and i don't have to travel all the way to starbucks at 2 in the morning. thanks mostly because it's a one-time cost, and starbucks is like a half mile from my apartment even though it's on campus.
I'm tagging this as insomnia because technically i haven't slept since 10am yesterday, so it's been about 24 hours.
I put makeup on this morning because i thought it would make me less tired looking, but i think by now i've ended up rubbing it all off.
kimya dawson freaked me out last night (this morning?) because i forgot i left my stereo on really quietly and i was basically home alone and i walked into my room and heard a voice, then i was like oh. it's my stereo, hello kimya dawson.
NEVER let me do an all nighter again.
SCREW THIS CLASS.
seriously!
30 minutes left. let me go now so i can sleep and be happy again and my head won't explode.

-Leah

Procrastination...

It's 2:03 am. I have class at 8am. I still need to finish a paper, and yet i am here blogging.

how stupid am I?

I can't be that stupid, I'm in COLLEGE for crying out loud.

By the way, this show is ruling my life right now:



Oh yeah. I drew that. I figured it was better to use red construction paper than waste all that red ink. Plus, the logo's really just a bunch of lines anyway.

-Leah

2 days...

...and here it is.  I've been drawing a lot recently (check my Facebook Album), but i think this is my favorite one so far:

Yay!

-Leah

$1 for 8 minutes?!? Or How To Survive Camping (Part 1)

So I just got back on Sunday from camping at Clear Lake, and me and my cousin Hobz decided to make a camping survival guide. She’s drawing the pictures, so they’re still under construction, but I figure until I type up all the survival tips I’ll just run this in installments.
So here we go, and in no particular order:
$1 for 8 minutes?!? Or How To Survive Camping (Part 1)

• No matter what time of the day it is, if you’re in line for the shower you will hear very awkward things. The standards are: the male and female couple showering together, male only showering and moaning, and the ever popular screaming child and demanding parent.
  
• It doesn’t matter how many quarters you use to shower. You’ll be dirty again in five minutes anyway.
  
• Cheese in a can may sound disgusting, but pair it with some crackers and you have one of the best beach snacks ever.
  
• Board games are cool again! But once you’re out of the woods they become lame again.
  
• No one goes to bed until the campfire burns out, otherwise you run the risk of setting all of Northern California ablaze.
  
• Big fish always show up when no one else is watching. You may seem like the ‘boy-who-cried-wolf’, but you saw a giant fish and no one else did! So shut up and stop bragging!
  
• No matter your race, you turn into a redneck hillbilly when your camping because you get excited about “going to town!”.
• Personal hygiene goes down the tubes. If you loose your toothpaste, you can go without brushing your teeth for days: just pop in a piece of gum! Your hair tangles into knots and children’s faces turn grey. Just remember that skunk will always smell worse than you without deodorant.
  
• It’s easy to have a staring contest with a deer, but if you blink they will run.
  
• No matter how much time you think you have left in the shower, your quarters will always run out when you suds up for the second time.

That’s all for this issue of our camping survival guide. Stay tuned for our next edition which will help with things like mosquitos, marshmallows and those fuzzy woodland creatures!
Love ya!

-Leah