I could shove an icepick in my eye

[giallarhorn]

And I am now done with all my classes for the semester, and I'm still alive! Hello summer break!

Post finals life has quickly gone from staring at at python scripts and trying to wrap my head around Slater determinants to this-

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[ellipsisms]

Is that title from The Last 5 Years? XD

Also yay congrats on finishing the semester! Hopefully you finish the paper soon!

[giallarhorn]

It is! It seemed fitting to use, since it's the start of the summer, though my summer isn't in nearly as bad as the one in Ohio, and Climbing Uphill is probably a better song for life atm, it kind of stuck.

Ha, funny you say that about the paper, since it's become a complicated mess right now.

[pax_athena]

Unsurprisingly, I feel with you and that comic (actually the whole sequence) described my life right now D:

(But even if it's short: good to hear from you and thus know that you are hanging on in there!)

[giallarhorn]

It's like this constant, nagging voice in the back of your head reminding you of how unproductive you are D:

It's good to be back! Even if it's still in a very delayed, not entirely here sort of way!

[lyryk]

PhD Comic is always so accurate!

[giallarhorn]

I always wonder it's funny or tragic when actual life begins to resemble the comics. On one hand, reliability! On the other hand, life is now like those in the comics!

[omgpeyton]

Sorry that you don't get more of a "break" but at least no classes is nice since it's one less thing to worry about?

I'm so terrified for our country. Every time I think this joke is going to end, I wake up and see Trump on tv.. again and again.

[giallarhorn]

It is an upgrade! Though it's always weird not to have the school completely deserted.

I'm terrified by the fact that it's an actual point of discussion for Bernie supporters to go vote for Hillary. The fact that this is an actual movement, and that there are people considering not voting as a means of protest just because Bernie doesn't get the nomination (he'd probably not make the best President as it is- good VP, but not President, tbh) is what really scares me because Hillary? Eh. Trump? Different story.

[20hrsinamerica]

Haha, that comic is too real.

Ugh, Trump. I can't. I am with you on the whole "I don't think he'll win" but we can't just sit back and think that as non-Trump supporters anymore. It means we have to convince the anti-Hillary people to hold their noses and still vote because, part of the establishment or not, Hillary>>>>>>>>>>Trump's hate. (I keep hoping for a GOP convention coup, personally, but I feel like the GOP is currently doing the holding their noses thing.)

[giallarhorn]

PhD comics has a tendency to be scary accurate for grad school life, ngl.

That's what bothers me so much? I mean, I'm not the biggest fan of Hillary, but there's people out there who are actually saying that they'll vote for neither one because doing so is supporting the two party system? Sure, whatever, but that high horse won't look very good when it becomes the reason why we have Trump as President. At that point, I don't want to hear people like that complain about the establishment or whatever happens because hey, you're partly the reason the establishment got to such a shitty place.

I'm not sure what the GOP is planning on doing- some of them seem to be cautiously backing him, while others are just dropping out of the party entirely. I'd really like to see a GOP split because it's been a while since we had a new party form (though the Tea Party was arguably close to that). Other hand, I don't know if they'd want to risk it.

[20hrsinamerica]

Right?!? Or how, I think I saw it on The Daily Show, in Virginia, most people currently supporting Bernie would in turn vote for Trump if Hillary ends up being the nominee. And then people in this country wonder why politics is so fucked up. THAT'S WHY.

Yeah, I'd love a split (because that means Dems win in Nov) but the GOP are smart too and I don't think they'll risk it, even if they hate Trump.

[giallarhorn]

That's what completely baffles me- just because you don't like the Democratic nominee, you're going to instead vote for the candidate who literally spouts racist and sexist remarks every week. I don't follow the logic- even if you don't like Hillary, she's a hell of a lot better than Trump.

I feel like they've been itching for a split for a while now, though. The whole Tea Party movement felt like a prelude to an internal schism, and a contested convention might've done more damage, but alas. Maybe they'll implode after November.