On the most bored I've ever felt

I would like to preface this by saying that I've been having a busy summer. I've been working on (read: doing, writing, interviewing, layingout, etc) the church summer newsletter which is more work than I thought it would be. I'm doing work around my house and actually getting tan for once, and have already gone through 1.5 harr potter books.

I was more bored this afternoon than I have ever been in my life. My brother and parents were out, (Aaron not surprisingly since he lives in Ithaca, but he came to visit until about 2). I was looking forward to an afternoon of sunbathing, reading, working on some typing and writing, but when it came down to it, and everyone left, all I wanted to do was sit under the fan and watch tv. The problem was, we only get 8 channels, and the best thing on was golf. I ended up breaking out our minimal dvd collection of 6 movies and putting one in. The movie proceeded to lure me into an annoying half sleep where I wasn't tired enough to completely fall asleep but whenever a noise from the movie stirred me a bit, it pissed me off. I was uncomfortable whatever I did, nothing sounded fun or good or interesting. Finally, Emily, the bright shining beakon of light that she is, called and said she was standing outside my house. She had noticed I called her earlier but was busy. I explained how I was bored and after finishing she exclaimed that if she had known it was so dire (me, watching golf, it was bad) she would have captured me earlier. She then suggested that we do something, but even the thought of going out, staying in, doing something, whatever, I could just tell already that nothing we could possibly do would be fun! It was horrible!

Eventually we decided that we would do something for dinner. I was eased out of my bored stupor by going to emily's house and watching tv while she took a shower, which was fun because she has more than 8 channels. Then we went grocery shopping and cooked taco salads for dinner together and invited bill, sean, and ernest over and watched Be Cool while eating. It ended up well.

This was an interesting insight for me into the lives of those who may actually be bored over break. Its kind of hard for me to imagine because there is just so much to do, but, now I can definitely say I empathize with those people.

On feeling old

In less than 12 hours, I will be done with the first half of my undergraduate college experience. Its unbelievable! I was talking to Cat on the aim earlier about how I'm half done and got all teary-eyed. I fell like Cathy from that comic strip where she always feels old and screams and her hair gets all poofy and her eyes bug out. I've had the Don McLean song "Everyday its a-getting closer, going faster than a rollercoaster" stuck in my head for over a week. Its going so fast! I'm enthralled to see my family tomorrow, but I just need to get through these last 12 hours. Ok, for now, back to studying.

Unfortunately no dreams lately. I think it might be because I haven't been sleeping for more than a few hours at a time. Thank God summer is nearly here.