Tag: boredom

  • How to resolve boredom

    17 Nov 2006 » 1 min read about Reading & Books

    I mentioned the other day that I couldn’t decide what to read and with the weekend coming up, I felt I needed to take preemptive action. So at lunch today, I went down stairs and got my spending money for the week ($100). Then I walked over to Borders. I bought 2 books, Humans and…

  • Observations from 36,000 ft

    14 Oct 2006 » 2 min read about Travel

    It is 10 PM Eastern time and I am sitting in seat 2B in the First Class cabin of United 307 from Baltimore, Maryland to Los Angeles, California. I have been sitting here for just shy of four hours and I have exactly two hours to go, if everything is on time. I am bored…

  • Solitaire

    11 Feb 2006 » 1 min read

    I spent the last two hours doing nothing but sitting on the couch, listening to music and playing solitaire. I felt like I wanted to do some writing earlier, but just couln’t get into it. So I literally killed time playing solitaire. I am terrible at solitaire. I’ve been trying to decide if there is…

  • The problem with business travel on Friday nights

    04 Feb 2006 » 1 min read about Travel

    I got back to the hotel at around 5 PM and I am bored out of my mind. Everyone always has plans on Friday nights so it’s hard to find people to hang out with. I figured I’d come back here to the hotel and read or write, and I find that I’m in the…

  • Bored Beyond Belief

    31 Jan 2006 » 1 min read about Writing & Publishing

    There is not much to do here at this hotel and I was just tired and lazy enough to not want to go out and do anything either after work today. And so I find myself in one of those moods where I just don’t know what to do with myself. I watched an episode…