Many Strengths

Okay, so not exactly a straight-out funny picture, but I've had kind of a stressful week (first week back to school.  Yay!) and I felt like doing something different, so that's what happened.  Besides, it's my blog, so I get to make up the rules, right? 

So in the last week alone, I have faced psychotic roommates, an oversized mass of overpriced textbooks, scheduling woes, and an insidious plot to prevent me from graduating.  Fortunately, the people at the advising center are actually human and rescued me from sudden-death overtime.  So I'm drawing comics and I'm still alive. 

For the moment, anyway.  Keep your fingers crossed. 

Textbook Reservation

This, of course, is exaggerated for comedic effect. Phil would’ve only had to wait, oh, three-to-five days for rescue.  Because no sane student would actually reserve textbooks without bothering to pick them up.  I know I would have a conniption if I paid for overly-expensive books that I never actually got my hands on.  So they would dig him out.  Eventually. 

All joking aside, from what I’ve seen of the storeroom the stacks of textbook boxes only come up to about waist high, so you can see over the piles easily enough. But my university is on the small side. Now, if there were a similar percentage of students reserving books at a large school, then there might be a problem. 

But hopefully this isn't the case, as students and workers alike have other things to worry about, like towing around boxes containing 300-pound's worth of books. 
Yes, I speak from experience. 

New Roommates

My bet is that this is going to at best make a good sitcom, and at worst end up resembling something out of Spy vs. Spy.  Either way, I pity those in the crossfire. 
I'm heading back to school in another week, which means having to deal with a new batch of roommates.  Fortunately, I've never run into roommates outright trying to kill each other.  That would be against the honor code. 
Though maybe I should brush up on my martial arts.  Just to be on the safe side. 

Happy April!

I nearly (but fortunately not completely) forgot to put up this month's Birthstone Unicorns picture, but it's here now.  Happiness!
So happy April, and good luck if your "little April showers" are anything like where I live (i.e. hailstorms). 

Milking It

Or:  "Why My Brother Will Not Be a Farmer When He Grows Up."

My family keeps goats, which recently had a total of six babies.  Half of which still can't figure out how to get milk from the source.  Cue myself and my siblings, who on a daily basis brave a macho-idiotic billy, three irritable nannies, and a swarm of baby goats who think eating you alive is an act of love, all to get the job done. 
It may have had a slightly adverse effect on our sanity. 

It's a good thing those babies are cute.