Boredom

Fortunately boredom is not something I've ever experienced to any terrible extent. I could use another ten or so hours in every day, in fact, to accomplish all the things I want to get accomplished. There are languages to learn (Python is the current object of interest), games to play, websites to develop, songs to write, training to be done, research to be performed, and all sorts of other nouns to be verbed. I was last bored on Monday, August 13 at 7:15pm for about four minutes, according to written record.

There is something tantalizingly interesting about a person stuck in the throes of boredom. What's it like always to be bored? Are you really so perfect that there is not something you could be practicing right now? Have you so discovered and unraveled the mysteries of the universe that there is no interesting fact you could be in pursuit of? Or is it that there is something to do, that very thing you should be doing at this very moment, and you just don't want to do it?

If you're not going to be doing anything with that hour, do you mind if I have it? Do you realize how much I have queued up to do, and there you are, pacing around frantically stating that there is nothing to do?

- Sunday, October 07, 2007