Boredom by experimental

Writers • Realism • posted on Jul 01, 2005

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Complete and total boredom, pressing in from all sides. Plenty to do, but no will to do it. The sounds of the room have become too loud to bear. The computers whir at deafening decibels and I swear I can hear the electricity humming behind the walls. I've checked my email 20 times today, but nobody ever sends me anything. I could sit and reflect on random thoughts, but there seem to be none left to reflect on. I could do the things I need to do, but why should I when I can do them later. Energy is being sucked from my being at an incredible rate, but the seconds keep ticking on, ever so slowly. I squeeze minutes out of the clock and watch them melt away. If I stare at the hour hand long enough I begin to see it move. Trapped here at work, waiting for the phone to ring so that I'll have something to do. It rang once today, an hour ago, but I probably spent a total of 3 minutes talking and solved their problem and they hung up on me. I wanted to keep them on the phone, just to chat, but nobody seems to want to chat when calling for technical support. They seem more interested in blaming me for their problems. "Why does my computer tell me no dial tone? I just paid my bill last week, why did you turn off the dial tone?" one woman asked me once. I explained to her that we don't control the dial tone and that either the phone line was not working properly (she was talking to me on the line, so it must have been working), the line wasn't plugged into the computer right, or the modem was dead. We discovered that the line wasn't plugged into the computer right, go figure. A guy came into the office a couple of minutes ago looking for a cable modem. "Nope, don't sell those here, sorry." I could go through and finish auditing emails that I started yesterday, or clean out large mailboxes, or a bunch of other things. So much to do and so much time. I'll do them later, meanwhile I think I'll sit and enjoy the boredom. --------------- As you can tell this was written at work. Got my scanner up and running, but I left my drawings at school, will be another week before I can get them back.

Comments (4)

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NothingNess

7:55AM | Sat, 02 July 2005

"So much to do and so much time. I'll do them later" I love this line, send me some of your excess time please as I've got too much to do and too little time.

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meico

6:24AM | Sun, 03 July 2005

Seems like you've turned procrastination into an art ... or more likely your bosses are not sufficiently creative to allocate interesting and absorbing [and essential] tasks. In your position I'd wallow in it too!

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