welcome to the next installment of crawdad's semi monthly news posts. we've got quite a lot to talk about on tonight's episode so buckle in fellas.

ladies and gentlemen please give a warm welcome to the one the only Crawdad.

walks out onto stage

hello everybody how is everyone tonight.

an unexpected barrage of tomatoes and boo's erupt from the crowd

aw what the fuck dude this is a new suit and everything- get off the stage jackass

fuck you crawdad

kill yourself!

i knew i should have stayed in bed today -drum and cymbal sfx followed by laugh track over muffled cursing from the crowd-

we'll be right back after these messages!

ah that was fun. but I do have news to share with yall.

As most of you know it's summer now so I have plenty of time to make some art to hold you guys off till I find the motivation to make some finished stuff, which I do have something in store right now, but I won't make any promises since I've been historically bad with dates on here regarding art.

so yeah speaking of school being out, how were final exams to all my homies out there still dealing with school? I was pretty certain mine would be hell due to a certain event that I may or may not touch on later in this post depending on whether I feel the need to let yall know that much about my life. I am just a guy on the internet after all.

So yeah, final exams? Mine were fine. I was pretty messed up due to the aforementioned event so I was certain I was gonna bomb that class, but luckily with some stroke of luck or just fate, I ended up actually passing geometry which means I don't have to retake that piece of shit class.

I'm going to the career tech center next year for school and the course I'm taking apparently counts for 3rd or 4th year math credits (I can't remember which)

So yeah. Junior year is said to be the hardest which I'm not enthusiastic about, but I plan to lock in next year as to not worry about missing work like I did this previous semester.

Anyway enough school talk, it's summer. Time to do summer things like go outside, spend time with friends, do the hobbies you enjoy, kiss people, wait wtf. Kiss people? That's right everybody you heard it hear first folks. Fabled internet goonerbrain Crawdad got a kiss from a GIRL! and it was cool I guess:p

But all good things must come to an end I suppose so allow me to weave you all the watered down and less personal story of my shortly lived relationship.

I'd started this relationship a few weeks before school was officially about to close, so I was super stoked to have the whole summer to spend with her. We ended up going to our local yearly carnival together and do a ton of romantic stuff which I never experienced, which was pretty cool to say the least. And on top of that we ended up tagging along with a couple of mutual friends between the two of us and doing a ton of fun stuff together including us both waiting for one of our friends to finish one of those little picture box games at playgrounds where you need to organize the boxes to make a picture which in this case ended up being a frog which took him like and hour to finish. (fuckin dumbass) and when the night was over we all said goodbye and went home. So yeah a great night all around, I'd never really spent that much time with people outside of school and it felt nice to finally live a little especially with a girl by my side. But a couple weeks later blah blah blah I'm not going into detail but to be frank about it, I no longer have a girlfriend, which aforementionedly (is that a word?) fucked me up pretty bad especially with final exams coming up. But hey, I pushed through and now I'm doing just a-ok. It was a small slump that I found myself in but eventually crawled my way out of as one does.

But enough of the mushy sob story, any of yall seen any good movies lately? I've personally been super into the planet of the apes series with my dad as of recent and just watched mad max fury road earlier today. Some great cinema for sure. Speaking of entertainment, any of yall been keeping up with smiling friends? Man what a series. Props to Zach and Michael, this show is a blessing.

Anyway to conclude this news post let's talk about future endeavors and how I plan to spend my summer. As I said before, I definitely plan to dish out a lot of new stuff for yall so just give me a bit to add some final touches to this new piece and we'll be off and running. Here's a hint: we we're talking about school right? That's your only hint, it's school related. Anyway I hope yall like it because I certainly do so far.

I plan to spend this summer socializing with friends and family as much as I can and really taking summer in as an experience and not so much as a 3 month excuse to sit in bed and do nothing. I wanna do new things this summer, meet new people, hell, maybe even fall in love again. But eh, time will tell.

I hope you all are having as great a summer as I'm having so far and once again I'd like to thank you all for sticking around. I can't express how grateful I am for such a tight knit community like you guys. Goodnight newgrounds. Crawdad signing off.

Adios