Help me!
What can I do?
Write my paper comparing two Supreme Court of Canada cases?
Wash my car?
Decide what I should eat for lunch today?
Any one of those three would be good.
Clean out your pantry?
Call someone?
I was feeling bored earlier, so I called a co-worker who I’m becoming friends with and now I’m meeting her for dinner in a couple of hours. I’ll be getting into the shower any minute now. No more boredom! 
Knit and watch tv.
It’s what I’m doing (until I took a break to come here, that is.) 
I’m doing you one better, ivylass – I’m knitting, watching TV, AND reading the Dope.
My all-purpose cure for boredom, however, is to take a nap.
Exactly how many hands do you have, Mama? How can you scroll through the threads, much less type, if you’re knitting?
Just pause, hold both needles with one hand for a second, scroll, and resume knitting. Or, if I’m feeling particularly dexterous, tap the page down key with the end of my needle.
It helps that I’m not knitting something requiring huge amounts of attention or finesse, of course.
Hey, Kytheria–wanna trade?
I’m miserably stressed out at the moment. It’s a gorgeous Saturday afternoon (rapidly fading into night), and I’m sitting here in the lab, working on a presentation. I’m giving the presentation to my lab group on Monday (they’re going to sit through my presentation and give me feedback, so that when I do my little song and dance in front of the faculty and all the other grad students on Friday, I don’t look too totally idiotic.)
Could you tutor me in eleventh grade biology? I have a test on Monday.
Internet + porn = not bored anymore.
Buy 100 bottle rockets.
Proceed to try and come up with 100 unwise things to do with them.
FTR, I’ve already got “remove vent cover from air duct, shoot rocket through ventilation shaft of hotel you’re staying at” checked off the list.
Please tell me you didn’t register under your real name… :eek: 
#37 - Attempt to unleash your inner Werner von Braun by constructing multi-stage rockets by taping 2 or more bottle rockets together.
This never works. :smack:
play with cat (or dog)
clean a closet; in the process, find some long forgetten thing and reminisce
Oh boy, are you in for a treat! I have a huge list of stuff you can do when you’re bored. here’s some of the best…
THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
1. Push your eyes for interesting light show
See a variety of blobs, stars and flashes. Try to make out things - if your subconscious trying to tell you something? Can you control what you see by presing different areas with different forces?
2.See how long you can hold your breath
Not that much fun, but it sure passes the time. Play with a friend, or try to beat your own personal best. Some tips: hyperventilate beforehand, and stay as still as possible.
3. Try not to think about polar bears
This is especially hard, because by trying too much, you remember what you were trying to avoid thinking of. If you try too little, you end up thinking about polar bears anyway.
4. Scratch yourself
Go ahead, scratch yourself now. Even if nothing itches, go ahead. Doesn’t that feel pretty good?
5. Pinch yourself
What is pain? Why is it unpleasant? Is it all in your mind? Plus, after pinching yourself for awhile, boredom will seem nice next to being in pain.
6. Look at something for awhile, shut eyes, study after image.
Fun to combine this one with pushing on your eyes.
7. Watch TV, repeat everything said in Italian accent
Sort of entertaining. Fun to pretend the people on the screen are actually talking that way.
8. Pick up a dog so it can see things from your point of view.
Think about it: A dog has only seen your house from a viewpoint of 6" to 2’ high. Also try looking at things from its point of view, too.
How about a game of riddles?
Or maybe a quiz on scientific geneologies of sub-terrerean African monkies?
(hey, to make it fun…only the indigeneous species count for bonus points!)
Someone is reading in a house at night. Suddenly, the lights go out. The person has no flashlight, nor is there any moonlight. There is no means by which any illumination is hitting the pages, yet he continues to read without inturruption. How is this so?
He has a miner’s hat on a helmet?
He has a wireless computer and is reading a story on the internet?
Or how about it’s daylight?
He goes outside and reads under a streetlight?
I retract this statement.
I’m dying to know. Tell us. Pleeeeeeease!