Camp Stories

Uh oh...

“Hi Clin-ton!”

Had a rough evening, and this is the kind of thing I need to begin to cheer me up. Hopefully reading some more QC and smoking a bowl will help me from having shitty, depressing dreams.

I'm going through the archives and recently passed the strip where Claire was introduced, along with Emily, and Gabby who has gone to the limbo for Characters With Nothing Interesting to Do. Anyway, Jeph at the time pooh-poohed the idea that Marten might hook up with any of them ... How things change.

Now AI literature camp would have been amazing to see. Imagine, nerds talking about Asimov, War of the Worlds, Hidden Markov Model Neural Nets, and whether or not AI would fuck things with graphic demonstrations. In the woods with minimal adult supervision, naturally.

Is it supposed to be "saing" in the third panel and I just don't know that word, or should that be "saying."

Why is Emily practicing voluntarily crossing her eyes? (I can do that, and it freaks out your opthalmologist.)

I feel like folks at AI camp definitely got laid and Clinton just didn't notice

Prediction: Emily tells Clinton that she isn't busy anymore and she'd like that second date (startling Clinton, who thought that 'too busy' was just an attempt at a tactful dumping). They go out to lunch together and run into Brun - This is super-awkward, as I'm sure you can imagine. Brun bluntly tells Clinton that she thought he was attracted to HER not Emily. Whilst Clinton is in a flop-sweat, trying to work out what to say, Emily tells Brun that she is more than happy to share Clinton with her. Things only get more complicated from there on in.

The coffee shop board is blank. HERESY!

Having attended a “nerd camp”, I can attest that people there hooked up. (No chair throwing that I can recall, though.)

I love Claire more and more every comic

Poor Clinton! Claire even does nerd things in a more exciting ways that he does! At least we know now why Claire believes that the ridiculous shipping patterns in animé can be replicated in the real world: She's LIVED it! Oh, hello Emily! Your presence is likely to lead to... consequences!

Yeah that sounds about right for a group of literature enthusiasts.

Love the shadowing on Claire's hair in this 👍

My very last summer camp consisted of a series of near-drowning experiences. Intentional ones. Nobody could believe I couldn't swim, and kept making me prove it. (Edit: They called these incidents "Swim Lessons".) The experience did not endear me to swimming, nor to summer camp. Truth be told, I didn't learn to swim until I was 52. At which point I became a truly fast swimmer, easily covering miles in the open ocean. Now I teach open water swimming. Go figure. I'm just thankful it wasn't about sex instead.

Claire - you JUST admitted that's EXACTLY what literature people do.

Butterfly in the skyyyy I'll bust you in the eeeeeyeeeee A hard left hook That's all it took A reading rainboooooow

Emily has the look of a lion who just spied lunch.

Yay, coffeeshop time!

Reminds me of when I joined the Facebook group for the summer camp I went to. I apparently missed a lot.

Typo: saing should be saying

This is in line with my experience at Shakespeare and general lit camp.

EMILY ❤

That chair argument MUST be replicated with OC Choppers Meme Of The Moment...

Aww. ❤️ Emily Gordon.

Just thought I'd mention there's a typo in Claire's bubble, panel 3. I love this backstory!

As a lit major, I can definitely see throwing a chair at someone over a Bronte argument.

Anne FTW. Also "saing"?

Lit people don't fuck around...they just fuck.