How to Change a Flat Tire (Without Feeling like a Failure)

Hey Internet,

My name is The Noah,

and THIS is Noahbody Cares!


My younger sister Nat also has a blog and it's low key pretty great (linked to in the vicinity of right about here: natandarthur.wordpress.com). In that blog she anthropomorphizes her Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (that means she gives human characteristics to it. You just can't get through one of my posts without learning a word... unless you already knew that word. It's not that uncommon, so maybe you did.) and calls him "Arthur." I think this is super cool because it gives her the ability to talk about her arthritis with friends or in public without having to explain the condition to people who will never wrap their heads around it. She can just say "Arthur's been a pain in the butt lately". By anthropomorphizing him she can also confront him by saying things like "I know eating healthier gives me more power over Arthur, but I still have to live with him for now." 

Her blog gave me the inspiration to plagiarize...

Top Ten Study Tips (alternate title: How I Optimized Cookie Clicker)

Hello literate, sighted people and potentially those being read to,

I'm The Noah

First name The,

Last name Noah,

And THIS is Noahbody Cares. Sorry for accidentally making a post I cared about last time, we should be back to your regularly scheduled RUBBISH now.

So I'm a sophomore at [university], and it can be stressful to sit and do homework alone. Sometimes I combat this by doing homework with others, though I've yet to find a group that doesn't get distracted every .5 seconds (Yes, I'm aware the common denominator in all these groups is the fact they contain exactly 1 The Noah). When I really need to focus I find somewhere quiet and promise myself I'll work hard for at least an hour or two. 

It was around the 2 hr mark on one of these solo missions that I decided to revisit an old passive game Cookie Clicker http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/ (one of those "clicker" games where you watch a number increase and you can leave and come back every few hours or days and buy things to make the number increase faster.) I figured I'd play for a few minutes and get back to work... And I did... For a while...