December 24, 2004
Chosen... to be bored
I was unemployed a year and a half ago and I was never this bored.
Every day, I would wake up with nothing to do except (lazily) look for work and yet I could somehow find something to do. Even though my friends were at work, I could spend my days walking aimlessly around, blogging, going to movies or otherwise keeping occupied. But today is Christmas Eve, I worked yesterday and I will go back on Monday, yet I'm suffering from levels of boredom seldom reached outside a Greyhound bus rolling down some midwestern highway through wheat fields four hours from its destination.
Maybe it's the bitter cold. Maybe it's the lack of people on the streets. Maybe it's because my furtive excursion outside consisted of going to places that shut down as soon as our little band of bored Jews settled the bill. The one thing I do know is that I shouldn't have returned all my Netflix DVDs earlier this week.
Tomorrow, I will see The Life Aquatic and probably eat too much Chinese food, which will provide a break in the tedium.
Of course, Merry Christmas to all my goyim readers, and may there be iPods under each and every tree. Speaking of trees, I did see one cool thing today: The white feather Christmas tree in the lobby of the Helix Hotel. You can't really tell with the camera phone picture, but it was decorated with little disco balls.
Posted by rj3 at December 24, 2004 11:29 PM
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If you're that bored, give me a call. Jeez.
Posted by: chris at December 27, 2004 9:25 AM
Jeez dude, I thought you were in Florida already
Posted by: rj at December 27, 2004 11:02 AM