This year was my first year attending Comic Con, and while I had a fantastically fun time, the experience itself was also a bit overwhelming and stressful. I had the opportunity to go with one of my childhood friends, Amber, who invited me to stay with her and her husband in north San Diego. Luckily for me, Amber knew to purchase tickets early (we bought them in April). Even so, we were still too late to secure 4-day passes, but we did manage to get a pass for Friday and Saturday. After having this experience, I was actually glad we didn’t get 4-day passes, as I don’t know if I could have handled more than 2 days.

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I’m not a person who normally gets addicted to television shows, but there is one show that I’ve been watching non-stop the past couple of weeks – Big Bang Theory. If you haven’t seen this show yet, I highly recommend it. I don’t think there’s ever been a show where I’ve laughed repeatedly throughout every single episode. Of course, the nerdiness of the show appeals to the nerd in me, and I’m sure I find most scenes of the show hilariously funny because I can actually relate (or know people exactly like the characters). However, my favorite character, hands down, is Sheldon, the scary-smart genius who has no idea how to relate to humans or society. Below are a few of my favorite Sheldon scenes.

And my absolute favorite which had tears rolling down my face (premise: Sheldon found out Penny bought him a Christmas present and because social convention dictates he give one in return, he goes shopping at a bath store. In order to give Penny a gift of equal monetary value, he purchased 10 different gift baskets and plans on feigning digestive problems so he can escape for a few minutes to Google the monetary value of her gift to him in order to choose the gift basket with equal value):