What to do when you’re bored at school

What do you do when your favorite source of procrastination (the Internet, in this case) is, well, boring?

You look for other activities, right? Maybe you’ll bake something. Or clean the kitchen, which once again is a mess. But what if you don’t have an oven to bake in or a kitchen to clean? Then you’ll try something else. Maybe you want to watch your next Netflix DVD. And yet, even though they say you’ll get it Friday, it’s ten minutes before the post office closes and your mailbox is STILL empty! Perhaps, then, you’ll want to knit, since knitting is fun and keeps your mind occupied, with the right amount of challenge. But what if you want to space out your knitting time because it looks like you’re going to need another skein sooner rather than later because knitting the cable is so fun and you just keep going and going and going but you want to switch skeins after the cable is done, but the rest of the skeins are in a package either not send yet or on its way to you, and the other knitting you have is just plain boring cream-colored stockinette?

What then?

Then, you turn to homework as your principal source of amusement.

Insert loud collective gasp here.

I got up at 9 today (early for anyone around here I know). By 11 I was sufficiently awake and breakfasted. From 11 to 2 I couldn’t figure out what else to do besides homework so I finished about half of it. Before 2p.m. on a Saturday. I know. I’m screwed for the rest of the weekend. At two I decided to walk down to the nearest yarn store and buy some circular needles (necessary for my sweater, soon as more yarny reinforcements arrive). The walk was about an hour long, probably helped by my stopping often to look at different stores on the way there. I just can’t seem to keep going. I guess that’s the part of me that pretends to be spontaneous. After spending 5 minutes in the yarn store, though, I was out already. Why make myself want things I can’t have? Limit the exposure.

Then I caught a bus and was back at school in five minutes.

Apparently I walk much slower than a bus drives.

I have a great bakery right next to school and I think I should go there more often. However, I shouldn’t pair their breads with more-expensive under-ripe raspberries. Tomorrow, I’m going to check out the gardening club. Have you heard of lemon cherry tomatoes? They taste like lemon but they’re tomatoes!

I can’t wait to get involved in the gardening/food sustainability club. It is going to be awesome. So much better than the environmental group on campus. (I hope.)

Was that random enough for ya?