Indeed, all this downtime is pretty boring. Everyone else is doing finals while I sit around trying to think of something to do. I probably join the blogging majority with this boredom posting, so congratulations to me for fitting in. I’m usually pretty good with finding things to do. Over the summer my daytime working schedule conflicted with my friends’ evening schedules, so this has happened before. While they worked, I would read a book or watch a baseball game. In my literature -starved apartment during the offseason, I don’t have those pastimes available to me. The magazines are nearly spent and the library is filled with people studying. TV’s always available, but rarely worth watching until late at night. Chances are, all I’ll be doing at home is reading and watching TV, but it seems better there.
Boredom expectedly leads to consumption; my roommates are out buying alcohol now.
I need to do something great this break. Productive plans (as in plans not involving drinking) so far include keeping this blog and reading a book on Theodore Roosevelt. Between those and the non-productive plans, I don’t think that’s enough! If gas wasn’t so expensive I’d be out driving, even now, but even with that the way it is I want to go into the City a few times, definitely be around in general. It’s always good to have friends along when you’re traveling, and I think they’d be up for it. It seems like being of age gives a reason to go places – when you’re under 21 all you really have available is hanging out at people’s places and dick around. Saying, “let’s go to the City or Philly” might result in a “Why?” Saying, “let’s get drunk in the City or Philly,” will probably result in a “Fuck YES!” One alcohol-based road trip is already planned: me and my best friends are hitting up Boston for St. Patty’s weekend. Concern for the future is not an option: we’ll go broke for this trip, it means everything to us and we’ll never forget it. I hope that in the future traveling won’t necessarily involve drinking. For now, though, the best way to see the world is through the bottom of a glass.
