Good Remedy for Boredom?

[ralph124c]

I have to admit it: I am bored! I work all day (leave home at 6 AM, return at 6 PM, eat dinner, fall asleep by 9 PM- repeat. I am tired of everything I do-I don't see any movies I want to watch, and I'm tired of the pattern.
What do you do when you get really bored?

[EmAnJ]

Take a course, go out with friends, take up a hobby, take my dogs for a long walk, read a book, chat with friends or relatives, work on my scrapbook, write out some more of my grandmothers life story that I'm editing for her, go for a run or bike ride, go to the gym, go to the mall, bake, plan a vacation, buy Christmas gifts online, organize.

There.

[Campion]

Work longer hours.

[ThirdCultureKid]

Um.. Go on the SDMB and browse?

What else?

[Kythereia]

Plot the overthrow of the world's governments and total global domination?

Or read a book. Your call.

[Terrifel]

Boredom needs no remedy. Embrace it; you will have a friend for life. Excitement is vastly overrated.

There is a Chinese saying, intended as a curse: "May you live in interesting times." Consider all the times that "exciting" things have happened to you. Overall, what percentage of them were pleasant?

When you get home after a really "interesting" day, are you more likely to say: "Wow! Today was really amazing! All sorts of unexpected things happened to me, and they were all good! It was wonderful! Life is fantastic!"

Or have you more often said: "Holy cow! All kinds of unexpected stuff happened today, each one a disaster unto itself! Thank god it's over! My day was pure hell!"

What is a "good day?" I suggest that it may generally be defined as a day in which nothing exciting happens. Everything goes according to plan. There are no meteor strikes. Treasure these moments.

Savor the boring times while they last. Excitement will find you soon enough. When it happens, it won't be fun.

[Thudlow Boink]

Have kids

Rob a liquor store

Run for president

Call somebody up and ask if their refrigerator's running

Enlist in the Navy

Go to the grocery store, go to the cereal aisle, start opening boxes and digging through them for prizes, and see how long it takes before they come and take you away

Become ... a lumberjack!
Oh...
I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay
I sleep all night and I work all day

[Hostile Dialect]

Bank robbing works. Unfortunately, it has side effects.

[blondebear]

Assuming that you have vacation time coming next year, start planning a trip. Pick someplace you've never been. Go down to the library and get some books with photographs and stories of the area. That should take you away from your workaday world and give you a goal at the same time.

[pool]

Drink?

[OtakuLoki]

Take up arson. Or firefighting. Either hobby will do wonders for removing boredom from your life. (well, the arson thing might bring more boredom later if you're silly enough to get caught.) I've never, ever, ever been bored when dealing with a large, out of control, or even only nominally controlled fire.

[Hostile Dialect]

Arson will also offer the possibility of a long, painful, horrifying death, which will be perfect for you if you become an arsonist.

[OtakuLoki]

Originally Posted by fetus

Arson will also offer the possibility of a long, painful, horrifying death, which will be perfect for you if you become an arsonist.

But it's hard to be bored when you're in constant agony.

[ianzin]

www.lileks.com

[tonedef]

Originally Posted by fetus

Bank robbing works. Unfortunately, it has side effects.

which defiantly aren't boring!

[Terrifel]

Originally Posted by fetus

Arson will also offer the possibility of a long, painful, horrifying death, which will be perfect for you if you become an arsonist.

To be fair, firefighting also offers that possibility.

[Zoe]

Make out your will.

[Scuba_Ben]

Originally Posted by Zoe

Make out your will.

<Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, Bt.>
Forge your own will.
<RM>

[Martiju]

Originally Posted by tonedef

which defiantly aren't boring!

There's something Freudian in that, but I can't quite work out what it is...

[overlyverbose]

I usually clean my house because if I'm bored that means I actually have free time, which I almost never have and I hate that my house seems to constantly devolve into chaos every time I turn my back.

However, if I'm bored and there are guests over (usually happens when I'm at my mom's house and she's invited her old sorority buddies and they start reminiscing over cocktails), I generally start fantasizing about something or making lists in my head of things I need to do. "Hmmm... Okay, after dinner, I need to wash the kid, put on his pajamas, then I'll clean the dishes. If I'm really, really lucky, I'll be fast enough I can score 5 or 10 minutes to myself. When I get home, I still need to pay the bills, get my oil changed..."

What else?

Read a book.
Write.
Go for a run.
Find some wild animals to prod.
Paw my husband.
Take a nap.
Go on the SDMB.

[Hostile Dialect]

Originally Posted by Terrifel

To be fair, firefighting also offers that possibility.

Yes, but a firefighter has training and is surrounded by more firefighters and EMTs, which puts the odds considerably in their favor.

[Hostile Dialect]

Originally Posted by tonedef

which defiantly aren't boring!

Well, I hear prison gets pretty boring after you finish intimidating everyone into not raping you.