Boredom

When was the last time you were bored?

I'm talking about the kind of bored where you say things like "I wish I had something to do," or "my life is so dull that I feel like a Kansan." The kind of bored where you kinda wish some giant carnivorous rabbits would run madly across your property, just to give you something to do.



Or sure, I get bored during meetings at work, when the bean counters start talking about collecting additional metrics, or when the less intellectually gifted people start arguing about stuff that doesn't matter. I suppose everyone has to put up with a certain amount of that stuff. But I'm talking about the kind of boredom where you fire up the vacuum cleaner (even though the house is already clean)..just because you don't have anything better to do. Or you do something completely ridiculous, like pay money to see a Natalie Portman movie, or go Starbucks.

There was a time when I would start scratching my head around noon on Friday, asking myself what I was going to do to fill the long vacant hours of the weekend. That hasn't happened in years. Now the questions I ask myself are "How am I going to find time to do everything I need to do?" and "What is the minimum sleep I can tolerate without complete system collapse?"

I wish they'd hurry up and invent robot housekeepers like they had on "The Jetsons". I need someone to take care of all the routine stuff like housekeeping, laundry, cooking, burning the mail, and flossing. I suppose I could hire a human to do those things, but that would cost money and make me look like a rich person...which would mean that I'd have to pay more taxes, and would become even more broke (and more unlikely to ever reach retirement than I am now.)

So, for now, I remain securely isolated from any possibility of boredom. I shall continue to long for the days when I begged my friends for activity ideas with which to fill the weekends...and instead will work long hours at the office, snarf down fast food on my frantic way from one obligation to the next, and cram too many pairs of pants in the wash because I don't have time to finish an additional load. Oh well.

Have a great day, my friends. And if you know of any good discounts on robot servants, please let me know. Thanks!