The Bashful Squirrel

Tutorial on how to lose much needed sleep. 

1. Wait until late at night, when you should be asleep and you've lost all rationality. 

2. Think long and hard about little animals and their interactions with each other until a certain conversation between two birds and a bashful squirrel becomes extremely important to you. 

3. Spend a few hours drawing this important moment between said creatures. Be sure to draw on paper that does not hold watercolor. 

4. Watercolor. Notice that paper doesn't want you to paint it and makes the process difficult. Don't give up. 

5. Magically lose the paintbrush you were just holding. 

6. Don't let lost paintbrush deter you from losing sleep. Find a new brush. 

7. Cry. (Optional) 

8. Post your masterpiece on Facebook so your parents can be proud of the good choices you are making as an adult your senior year of college. 

9. Whatever you do, don't think about what you are doing or look at the clock until you've reached this point, and I guarantee you will have lost valuable sleep! Congratulations, you'll feel fantastic in the morning!