Boredom

What to do for fun:
-Bike rides
-Open more and more accounts for things on the internet
-Start a band
-Learn the lyrics to a random song
-Txtmsg random people
-Gchat
-Read articles/talks/devotionals/random stuff online
-Stalk someone on facebook
-Actually do homework
-Go to ward activities
-Find someone who looks bored and start talking to them
-Eat something
-Play the guitar
-Make lists
-Call someone on the phone
-Read lots of blogs
-Write a blog post
-Write a letter
-Write in a journal
-Clean
-Paint nails
-Bake something
-Daydream
-Go for a walk
-Go for a drive
-Go shopping
-Plan out a schedule for the next week, semester, whatever
-Look for jobs/housing/graduate programs
-Think about new hobbies to start
-Doodle on a piece of paper
-Drop by a friend's house just to see if they are there
-Watch tv/movies
-Go running
-Go to the gym

Baking as Procrastination

Things I like to bake:

-Cookies

-molasses chocolate chip cookies

-PB&J cookies, w/o J, w/chocolate

-David Lebovitz's chocolate chip cookies

-molasses cookies (haven't made them in years now)

-Crepes

-peach shortbread bars

-breads

-rye bread

-white bread

-french bread

-dinner rolls

-focaccia

-banana bread

-banana oat bread

-cakes

-avocado pound cake

-honey whole wheat pound cake

-brownies

-muffins

-Nancy Silverton's Bran muffins

-banana oat muffins

-blueberry muffins

-Israeli-Palestinian conflict muffins

-tortillas

Things I want to cook/bake of late:

-mayonnaise

-challah

-rice cakes (who knows why)

-cookies

-bran muffins

-quinoa

-Israeli couscous

-Moroccan couscous

-corn tortillas

-flour tortillas

-crepes

The saddest words? What might have been.

Things I could have done tonight, but didn't:

-Gone to bed early (such a good idea)

-Homework

-Go to the gym

-Taken my car in to get fixed (I'm a little scared to drive it, actually)

-Watched one of the movies I bought at Blockbuster

-Gone to Hollywood Video and bought some of the movies they're selling now that they're going out of business

-Baked bread, or anything for that matter

-Called people just to chat (I never do this anymore)

-Read a book for the MA list

-Learned the phonetic system for Danish (or any other cool language)

-Found someone who was watching tonight's LOST episode and joined them

-Gone for a walk (who am I kidding? It's freezing out there!)

-Cleaned things

-Done my laundry (I really, really should have done that)

-Mani/pedi

-Written in my journal

-Thought of a new party idea and post it on the strange party idea blog my friends and I have

-Researched for my research paper... due in a week

-Rented the movie I'm writing my paper on

-Read Through the Looking Glass

-Write a letter to a friend

-Make one-ingredient ice cream

Because I liked the first one so much:

25 Random Things About Me:

1. I don't know how to keep a good manicure.
2. I have a soft spot for violent movies.
3. I don't actually care about the real definition of "pun." I will use it to mean whatever I want, whenever I want, and I don't need to be corrected on it.
4. I'm not competitive, but I don't like failing. If I'm going to lose a game, I'm probably not going to try to win.
5. I don't own contacts, so if I'm not wearing glasses, I'm sacrificing vision for comfort, fashion, or laziness.
6. I can't imagine having a career without a family, or a family without a dog.
7. I really, really like finding critical theory in campy and kitschy films and tv shows, like All Dogs Go To Heaven or Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater.
8. I sometimes wish I were asian so I could get away with bold fashion choices.
9. I'm probably not as well-read as most people think. I just know my way around wikipedia, and tend to learn about things through parodies on shows like SNL or Animaniacs.
10. I'm kind of in love with Rahm Emmanuel and Joe Biden. Nothing they do will hinder this.
11. Most days, I wish I had studied linguistics instead of settling into a single language for advanced study.
12. Few things get me more excited than a 15th Century Burgundian manuscript. Really. I'm that nerdy.
13. Tintin is one of those few things.
14. I adore every single one of those characters, but especially Milou (Snowy) and Capitaine Haddock. And Professeur Tournesol (Professor Calculus).
15. I kind of really like comic books and graphic novels. I may also consider them as good as classic literature, like the Aeneid.
16. I didn't like chick flicks until I was a senior in high school. I still prefer the more "masculine" forms of movies, and have a huge soft spot for the heist film genre. I can watch Rififi anytime, any day. And it's not even my favorite.
17. Sometimes I think that maybe, instead of becoming a professor, I should become a film critic. Then I remember that I have issues with sharing my opinions on movies with others.
18. Sometimes I read books or watch movies and think that maybe, just maybe, someday I could make something that cool. And then I realize that I haven't ever been too creative, but I'm fairly good at imitation. So, if I could do a remake...
19. I have a hard time thinking that humanity in general is good. I think it's because of this nightmare I once had after reading some Hobbes. It was kind of an awesome nightmare.
20. Another of my favorite dreams (the above being one) was about a zombie invasion at church.
21. I went to a private elementary school (Hawarden Hills Academy) where children were assigned numbers by the teachers. I never connected this before, but maybe this is why I think dystopian novels are awesome. They often contain some kind of depersonalization, akin to calling your student by a number instead of a name. I can definitely relate to that.
22. This isn't random, but I am extremely awkward in many situations. And I tend to not care enough to fix it.
23. I don't think being shy is a bad thing that needs to be changed. I think that extroverts refuse to understand the introverted way of life, and have ruined civilization for the timid human.
24. I can be extremely opinionated, but I rarely realize it until after I expose that to someone else.
25. Someone once called me "one of the most rational women [he] knows." It wasn't really compliment, and I kind of doubt it's true. I'm not that rational, but I know logic just enough to manipulate it and have the appearance of using it.

Whatever

Things I Do When I'm Bored:
-Make jokes, especially ones that are inappropriate to the situation
-Watch tv, especially hulu
-Cook
-Eat (more frequent than cooking)
-Read food blogs
-Read tabloid type things
-Get ahead in homework (or often just do homework on time)
-Read a book
-Research something random
-Txtmsg someone
-Call mom
-Play the piano
-Contemplate learning to play the guitar
-Grocery shop
-Take a nap
-Go to the gym
-Think about going to the gym
-Make lists

The End of a Semester

Music I Listen To Regularly As of Late (AKA the Past Two Weeks or So):
-The Great Escape (Blur)
-Parklife (Blur)
-The Essential Leonard Cohen (Leonard Cohen)
-A mixed CD of classic Francoise Hardy songs
-A recording of the Grateful Dead concert on 3/31/86 at Providence, RI
-The Fats Waller Centennial Collection
-The Pan's Labyrinth soundtrack

What I Do in My Spare Time (Even Though I Technically Should Have None):
-txtmsg people
-Watch TV
-Sleep
-Eat
-Do my hair
-Clean my room (not so much lately...)
-Clean the kitchen
-Clean the front room
-Go for walks (not anymore because it's too cold)
-Call my mom
-Surf the internet (does the term 'surf' seem passé to anyone else?)
-Homework