Elephants and Exams

Elephant Fact # 13: Elephants are averse to peanuts.

Another ridiculously long week, thanks to exam block. 

I keep on forgetting that there are always better places to sit during tests than others—no one wants to be the kid that sits next to the smart ass who tears the paper to shreds with their goddamn enthusiasm.

It's so distracting, the way they pound on the paper with their pencils! In the dead silence of the exam room you just hear this relentless rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat--

Or in that one area where you don’t realize is directly in front of a window until the sun hits you.

And finally, that place that teachers for some reason absolutely adore parading up and down along the aisles. This happened to me during one of the English papers; I was frantically scribbling some rubbish about the importance of watermelons and then this teacher stopped directly behind me.

I mean come on!

But it seriously feels really great to be able to just lay off the books for a while and just zone out—which lately for me means drawing. A lot.

 I’m not sure why I’ve gotten so enthusiastic about it lately; it's probably all the Drawing Wars I did previously. But I guess it’s been paying off in a way—I’ve been working on the flag for my school House with a friend:

It's still unfinished, so it's just a draft. I'm just excited that I get to design part of it...

And then I hit this peak of laziness where I just. Could. Not. Be. Stuffed.

Helloooo, Purble Palace.

Until next time!

The Unlucky Elephant

Elephants and Stars

Elephant Fact # 12: Elephants can laugh!

When I was really little, my parents put up glow in the dark stars on the ceiling of our bedroom.

I guess I must have really liked them.

I haven’t been blogging as much lately because of mock exams, plus my stylus broke a while ago and I had to wait for it to get replaced. Let me tell you, I suffered from so many withdrawal symptoms—so here’s what I got up to without my bestie.

I played a lot with the Powder Toy, a physics game I downloaded in Year 10.

Graffitied a few whiteboards.

Tried to practice my inking, but then I realized that I’d forgotten how to shade and then completely lost my shit trying to remember.

I was hanging around with my friend at the Chermside mall today. It was pretty late and there was no one around so of course I began to bust out my Lady Gaga repertoire.

It wasn’t until I noticed my friend frantically signalling for me to stop that I realized that I had just passed a couple making out in a dark corner and that I had just seriously killed their mojo.

I felt a little guilty—and then I didn’t. So I did it again. Five more times.

And then I got on a horsey-ride and belted out The Saddle Club theme.

Check out that herp derp face on those crappy phone pictures. Ooh baby.

The rest is a blur, but I’m pretty sure I might’ve said at one point something along the lines of “UNPROTECTED SEX IS THE WORK OF THE DEVIL.”

You know the funny thing though? They still kept going.

Damn, man.

The Unlucky Elephant