Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Garfield Minus Garfield

At the moment, I'm sitting among my textbooks and notebooks, eyes bleary from reading countless pages of power points, head reeling from hours of thinking about biology (mitosis and meiosis- I don't wanna talk about it), and just wanting to sleep. My poor time management and unfortunate midterm schedule means that I have trouble studying for more than one exam at once and, seeing as I have four exams this week, this makes for many late nights, as I can rarely bring myself to study for an exam when I have a different exam coming up before it. Can you tell I'm tired? I feel like that last sentence was barely coherent. But maybe it was. I'm not sure. And I can't bothered to go back and re-write it. The point is, my procrastination habits are just as bad as my study habits. And through these habits, I have found many small "study break" sites. One such gem that I stumbled upon recently is Garfield Minus Garfield. The site consists solely of Garfield comic strips, with Garfield carefully edited out. This results in a depiction of the "existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb." Basically, it turns a mildly-amusing comic strip into fucking comical gold to the sleep deprived brain, as it shows strip after strip of poor John, whose lonely existence is only made funnier/depicts him as anywhere between mildly insane and bat-shit crazy in the absence of his cat.  Here are a few of my favorites:
The ones where he says nothing are the funniest.

Ahahahha ohgod now I can't stop laughing. I need to go study. Or sleep. Or drink more tea.

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