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kitchen_kinkI think it's an awfully long time since I've been really, properly bored.
This could be construed as a good thing. On the other hand, it seems to indicate that I've been busy for about 18 years.
I was an only child, and so being bored would have been deadly. My parents certainly weren't interested in entertaining me endlessly, so I had to do it myself. I'd bury myself in books, play with my awesome Fisher Price habitats (would that I still had the Farm, the Castle, and the Airport!), or make nests and forts out of sofa cushions and blankets.
I think the result of this is twofold and paradoxical: as an adult, I am far more extraverted than I was, and frequently seek out company. However, I also feel the need to be left alone quite often, to futz around with my books or writing or computer-noodling. These desires sometimes oppose one another, and I get less alone time than I'd like, or conversely, begin to feel stir crazy.
But it's especially useful at work, on a day like this. I have had almost no work given to me today, though I've pinged several people throughout the day.
I've been merging the needs electronically: spending my time online doing my taxes, balancing my checkbook, paying bills, writing; and sending/reading emails, chatting, and reading my friends list.
Still, I hope there's work tomorrow. All that stuff is more fun and feels more productive when I'm doing it interspersed with "real" work.
Whee, multitasking!
This could be construed as a good thing. On the other hand, it seems to indicate that I've been busy for about 18 years.
I was an only child, and so being bored would have been deadly. My parents certainly weren't interested in entertaining me endlessly, so I had to do it myself. I'd bury myself in books, play with my awesome Fisher Price habitats (would that I still had the Farm, the Castle, and the Airport!), or make nests and forts out of sofa cushions and blankets.
I think the result of this is twofold and paradoxical: as an adult, I am far more extraverted than I was, and frequently seek out company. However, I also feel the need to be left alone quite often, to futz around with my books or writing or computer-noodling. These desires sometimes oppose one another, and I get less alone time than I'd like, or conversely, begin to feel stir crazy.
But it's especially useful at work, on a day like this. I have had almost no work given to me today, though I've pinged several people throughout the day.
I've been merging the needs electronically: spending my time online doing my taxes, balancing my checkbook, paying bills, writing; and sending/reading emails, chatting, and reading my friends list.
Still, I hope there's work tomorrow. All that stuff is more fun and feels more productive when I'm doing it interspersed with "real" work.
Whee, multitasking!
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Date: 2003-02-11 02:12 pm (UTC)Only chldren always interest me. I've met some who prefer to be completely alone and sometimes have trouble interacting with others. Other only chldren prefer to constantly surround themselves with people, as to avoid feeling lonely again. I find that I am sometimes in the middle and in the past, had a preference for being alone.
It's funny because when I was little I thought we were actually called "lonely children."
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Date: 2003-02-12 05:35 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-02-12 07:09 am (UTC)A lot of my stuff got put in storage, and then my dad (being his usual self) didn't pay the bill, and we lost all our shit...my Little Golden Books, my stuffed animals from when I was a baby...
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Date: 2003-02-12 07:11 am (UTC)I love the fact that you misheard it as "lonely child" when you were a kid, and here you also mistyped it "old child." All of them are true, aren't they.