Anxious Scholar Gifts

'She will not call on me, she will not call on me, she. . .'

Postgraduates A group of posts on their way to class.

"This statement from your headmaster says that you can easily get a good degree...your bank manager says you can't."

Fear of news.

'What I did on my summer vacation: I wrote about what I had done the rest of the year.'

'The first exam was easy as ABC, but that one felt more like a D,E or F.'

'But do you realize what this report cart will do to my self-esteem?'

"I just learned that my golden parachute was not properly packed."

'It's your babysitter, where do you keep your fire extinguisher?'

'I checked my symptoms on the internet and I think I might be dead!'

"And, of course, if I were to get the job and start feeling comfortable here I'd no longer need the security blanket."

'Your performance review is next Tuesday. You're allowed to bring a guitar and up to three backup singers.'

'I'm sorry, but I haven't understood a word you've babbled since I turned left on red.'

Before her first dressage competition, Kate suffered from Pre-Traumatic Stress.

'Please give me the strength to ask for a raise without my voice breaking into an annoying falsetto and my brow all sweaty.'

"Oh no, I never replied to Theresa's email! And tomorrow I must call Steve.... What does Yara think of me?"

Tree growing

Agoraphobic Explorer

The Job Interview

"Is it okay that I said yes to that costume party?"

'You're in extreme danger because you eat too much. . .'

I hate group projects

"Feel free to imagine you might have any of the conditions you read about in the magazines."

'If my grades don't improve, I don't know what'll happen. Maybe they'll offer me a buyout.'

"Call me a dreamer, but I see a world in which I give speeches without pants and find myself in the final exam of courses I never signed up for."

Idlewild.

You've been in there for quite a while, little buddy. Everything all right? Go away, Randy! Randy's rule #896: A confident person doesn't get tinkle-shy just because there's a long line waiting for him or her to finish. Still here. Go away!!!

Person is hiding behind book entitled 'Coping with shyness'.

"Did we switch everything off before we left?"

Worry about everything that might happen/Me/Be ready for nothing that does happen.

'What if I want to stop? Where's the pause button?'

Someone is always trying to force me to have more fun in my life phobia: 'Can you recommend someplace where nothing is expected of us? Wilbur can't stand pleasure of any sort.'

"At least you're not afraid to fail."

"Anyway, all you'll need to worry about soon is which direction the wind is blowing."

I called Laurel an hour ago and she hasn’t called me back. What could possibly be the reason? She no longer likes me; She's gotten into a horrible accident; She's having an affair with Justin Timberlake? She's moving to Europe without telling me?! HOJ. She hasn't gotten the message yet? She's moving to Europe with Justin Timberlake.