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13 Signs You're Just Going Through The Motions In Life, As Told By 'Santa Clarita Diet'

Life can be tough. Nobody understands that more than the characters from "Santa Clarita Diet."

Ilana Mekler

Apr 09, 2019

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Life can be rough, especially when you are an adult. Being in your 20s means you're driving down the road of life with these twists and turns all while wearing a blindfold that you can somewhat see out of. If anyone is going to know how life takes them by surprise, it's the characters from "Santa Clarita Diet."

Here are 14 signs you're going through the motions as told by "Santa Clarita Diet."

1. When you forget about your credit card payment for a minute and then you take a look at your bank account after a weekend out with friends

2. When so much is happening all at once

3. When something happens and you're not quite sure how to react

4. When you're trying hard to look like you have your life together, but fail

5. When you finally get some affection after one of your bouts of shutting yourself away from human contact

6. When you meet someone who seems like they have their life just a little bit together

7. You start getting involved in pet therapy to help keep you calm

8. When your quarter life crisis starts kicking in

9. You start fantasizing about changing your hair because of said crisis

10. When someone asks you how you're doing and you have to fake your positive answer

11. When you have to make dinner but don't really have food and don't really feel like making anything

12. Sometimes you just have no idea what's happening and you have to shrug it off

13. When you prepare yourself for getting injured because you're accident prone and your body doesn't bounce back like it used to

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13 Signs You're Just Going Through The Motions In Life, As Told By 'Santa Clarita Diet'

Life can be tough. Nobody understands that more than the characters from "Santa Clarita Diet."

In This Article:

1. When you forget about your credit card payment for a minute and then you take a look at your bank account after a weekend out with friends

2. When so much is happening all at once

3. When something happens and you're not quite sure how to react

4. When you're trying hard to look like you have your life together, but fail

5. When you finally get some affection after one of your bouts of shutting yourself away from human contact

6. When you meet someone who seems like they have their life just a little bit together

7. You start getting involved in pet therapy to help keep you calm

8. When your quarter life crisis starts kicking in

9. You start fantasizing about changing your hair because of said crisis

10. When someone asks you how you're doing and you have to fake your positive answer

11. When you have to make dinner but don't really have food and don't really feel like making anything

12. Sometimes you just have no idea what's happening and you have to shrug it off

13. When you prepare yourself for getting injured because you're accident prone and your body doesn't bounce back like it used to

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

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Because who understands your bitterness better than April?

1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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