Immediate Boredom Sets In

Lynae N.

December 6, 2009 - 9:44 PM

I can breathe a sigh of relief. My huge and very complicated paper is complete and turned in, classes are either done or coming to a speedy close this week, and I am now homework free. I was pleasantly surprised by the waves of joy that swept over me as I dropped my paper off in my professor's box four days before it was due. It felt so good to hand over the work and it felt more like dropping off a load of bricks than a paper. And not just for the size, but almost 40 pages of dense paper does have a bit of weight, but the mental and emotional weight that went along with the process was amazing. So needless to say I felt on top of the world. . . for a day.

I am so used to running my life a million miles an hour that even after a day of no homework and no necessary reading I found myself despairingly bored. I don't know about you but bored is one of the hardest things for me to deal with. It wasn't long before I was calling my husband in the breaks between his classes in his still busy life and without having to say anything, he knew why I was calling.

Boredom is pervasive. It changes my tone of voice, my enthusiasm in life, my spunk, my motivation, and my mental clarity. The sad thing is I will just start to adjust to a slower paced life and be able to comfortably relax when classes will start up again next term. But I love the full schedule and I love school. Even with seeing clients over break and taking off for weeks during December to travel up and down the west coast seeing family life seems somehow a bit on the empty side without classes.

So I have quickly found ways to fill up my time. Can you believe that in the past three days I have completely finished all of the Christmas shopping I need to do for the year! Not to mention I have taken my daughter out and have gotten her help picking out Christmas and Birthday presents for Daddy whose birthday just happens to be this month also, along with mine. I still have to pick up my Birthday present for my baby but I have a plan and can get this taken care of on Tuesday. In addition to having all of these presents purchases, I have them all wrapped and labeled. I have also gone online and have printed out and strategized baking mass amounts of cookies to give out, planned out our holiday travels, run mass numbers of errands, and am getting prepared to start helping my husband look at the application process for different schools. I know I will be plenty busy but I also hope that I will take the time to sit down and enjoy the rest while I have it because the next six months leading up to graduation will be a blur.

To slow down is good. To rest is better. But to be bored is like pulling teeth.