June 16th, 2008
Falling for nukes
Despite having so little of it, there is nothing finer to your average human than passing the time.
Some like to lose themselves in thought whilst others play games… and then there are those that try to learn a skill when doing nothing in particular.
For some humans though, passing the time is much like passing a kidney stone. They find it hard to amuse themselves. It turns out they have a condition called boredom.
Boredom has a complex epidemiology, but is easily diagnosed by frequent exclamations of ‘I’m bored’ and a certain amount of fidgeting and clock watching.
No single cure has proved effective enough to eradicate the problem.
Outbreaks are likely to occur in circumstances where electrical and communications equipment fail.
I know boredum…. i live boredum.. I drink boredum… even while being amused i am bored… we in america have a term for it.
ADD or ADHD.
I am both.
which means giving me an energy drink is bad….. so why have i chugged three at work? im stuck in a cube…. It’s quite amusing for everyone else…. im freaking out.
The crash later is going to be amusing for everyone at home…..
oh the crash is going to be hard…
And I just turned legal drinking age… i don’t think this will be good for my liver….. we’ll see.
almost forgot.. HAHA first post.
now to try and not bounce around the office…
Whilst I don’t have ADD, I do have a very short attention span. Fortunately I also have an abundance of amusing things to occupy my time. I too react badly (or goodly, depending upon how you see it) to energy drinks, alcohol and some preservatives in soft drinks… I get rather hyperactive.
What sort of job do you do? (feel free to be vague if you want)… is it one where bouncing around helps?
I do billing for online games. so i answer phones. its not too bad. easy job, good costumers, nice bosses. just the whole cube thing makes me feel a bit office spacey…. as in, i don’t want to do anything, but its not bad… just the mixing ofenergy drinks and enclosed spaces not very good.
Or at the end of an exam. It’s incredibly common there, especially when you finish around an hour early.
And for me, thinking in a situation like that is a bad idea. I always end up somewhat depressed if I think particularly deep for a long time.
At the end of the exam… no time for boredom, too much crying anyway.
Oh, post-exam boredom. No extra paper, nothing to write or draw on, no talking, and you -may not leave- until the two-hour mark has passed. Lucky lucky. Man, I remember back in uni, I went over my Prose Fiction final 4 times making tiny edits, and eventually correcting the shapes of some of my sloppier letters before handing the exam booklet in at exactly the deadline, and getting out. It was made worse by the fact that I was the only person done… it meant in addition to the 40 minutes of boredom, I also got glared at by 30 people on the way out.
Hah, exactly!
Invigilators can provide fun, though. You choose one, and then you stare at them until they realise.
Once they have realised you can begin a staring contest.
Although they tend to try and not get involved in such contests.
So I usually just line up all my equipment in neat rows along the desk.
My dad gets really angry if anyone says they are bored, well mostly if my teenage sister says she is bored. His reasoning is that there are so many things to discover, read, look at, walk to etc, that there is no excuse for boredom.
Whilst I agree with him now, as an apathetic 16 year old his argument bored me to tears!
im 21 and i still don’t find the logic. sometimes things just arn’t interesting.
although car keys on a string still seem to hold my attention…
ive always wondered at the way people have reserved that same, special whingy tone to say “I’m booorrred” over and over again. I mean sure, I’m great at whinging about anything when I want to be, but I’m sure that the “I’m bored” melody is utterly universal.