Tuesday, June 16, 2009

back to the drawing bored

Now that I have caught up on all my shows, it leaves one big question hanging in the post-finale silence: what do I do at work now?

If you say 'work' I will stab you in the face.

Given the nature of my work, I usually have a pretty sizable amount of free time. If it's a good day, I'll be busy for most of it, and will actually do my work. On a slow day, though, it's sloooooooowww. Like, the past 8 years waiting for Bush to get the hell out slow.


(Above: I'm the master at this)

The problem with harboring a reliance on scheduled (and seasonal) programming is that the after-taste is one of horrifically directionless despair. What do I do now for the next 3 months?

Seeing as how I work in a cubicle - an office, really, that has been effectively gutted and displayed for the world to see, entrails spilling out like a specimen upon the cold, calculating table in an anatomy class - my options are generally limited to activities on the computer that are easily alt-tab-able.

That doesn't leave me with a whole lot of options with decent entertainment value.

Maybe this is why people get married. Because the chances of that ending in directionless despair is greatly reduced, replaced instead with a vague and somewhat comforting sense of unsettlingly complacent boredom.

Maybe I'll just find another show to watch in the meantime.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

hey there buckaroo how's about you writing a novel to fill the dull hum of a mind interrupted.

michael said...

i'm working on it, i'm working on it. but one can only stare at the computer so much during the day...

MK said...

SO UNFAIR!

Anonymous said...

EH. I WANT YOUR LIFE.