Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 15, 2021

The 12 years until you graduate will fly by before you know it.

Surprised that the teacher hasn’t caught Calvin daydreaming yet. Something he literally does everyday.

Just quit watching the clock…..

Also known as third period math class. Which indeed felt like an eternity for me….

Wait until you go to work. Eternity and then some until you can go home

He should have carried the 3 in his spaceship.

Fun flies when you’re doing time. :P

This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius ..

When I seen a Spiff comic in the newspaper, I used to hold my hand over the last panel to try and figure out how Spiff’s “adventure” fit into Calvin’s real life. This was an easy one. I used too feel like “time had no meaning” at school and now I do at work sometimes

I remember hot, stuffy days like that in the classroom. Time seemed to have slowed to a crawl. Everyone was sticky and fractious and the teacher was as relieved as we were when it was home time.

Sitting through Miss Wormwood’s class? Sitting on a hot stove? Einstein was close.

An anagram of “lasts forever” is “farts’ resolve.”

Yeah, but when you have a test, you’ll be saying, “I need more time!”

In school I looked at the clock. What seemed like hours, I looked again. The big hand moved a few ticks. ARGHH! Yes time does have meaning!

Re: panel 5 – that’s one heck of an agile spaceship Spiff has.

Lucky Calvin, he’s going through school before Common Core.

Time sometimes crawls very slowly, then you look at the calendar and it’s already August.

How Watterson can transition between the two worlds is amazing!

My issue with the math monster is that it never stops attacking me. I still have trouble with “interest”. All I can figure out is that smaller numbers are better but every time the interest number gets smaller the payment term gets longer.

I was in that class for like 10 years…

The problem with youth is that it is wasted on young people.

I figured out a while ago why Time seems to go by quicker as we age.

When we are a child each day is a significant portion of our total Life experience. Remember how long we had to wait back then for our Birthday or Christmas to come around again. As we age that daily percentage gets smaller and smaller until we suddenly realize that a year now flies by.

Like Einstein said, Time is relative to our position along the individual time-line we all are carried along.

As a child, I was often caught in those time loops of never-ending classes.

“When the moon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter aligns with Mars, then peace will guide the planets, and love will steer the stars.”

- The 5th Dimension

So, that is the 5th dimension—-being totally bored.

I used to think it said “THIS HAS NO MEANING”

When you are bored yes time drags, when a subject you do not like time is snail pace.

With new subjects, I would deliberately pretend they were interesting. If it took doodling versions of a square root sign or a cat talking about gravity in word balloons, that’s what I would do to keep my attention focused. It worked. I learned an amazing number of things, retained a lot of that knowledge and had a career so lucrative that I will be able to retire to an Airstream trailer in the desert with a collie dog, if I can keep working until I’m 70. :)

We called my favorite math teacher “Big Louie”, but her real name was Mrs. Lewis.

What’s really amazing is that he is now a CPA in Dayton, Ohio.

This six year old thinking of fifth dimension in space and time does not deserve to sit so long in the primary section. His intelligence will be blunted by education.

I displayed his cartoon in my Middle School classroom.