Boredom

I am currently not working. We have a lady who cleans our house, so I don't have much to do there. I don't have a car, so I can't run errands. Woody's in charge of paying bills now, so I don't have to stress about money every month. I am the most bored I've been since childhood.

For those of you who are calling me names under your breath, don't worry, this won't last long. For this very reason I accepted two classes online which will start this weekend, and in a month I'll be swamped with teaching a new class for a new institution.

It's just that this is a weird sensation. The last four months have been consumed by moving out of a country and into a new one on top of working, child-rearing, etc. Before that I was working three part-time jobs in between taking care of Griffin and the house. And before that were years of work, lots of school, travel, etc. It's been a very, very long time since I've been bored like this.

For the first time ever I'm discovering games. Now I get what the Farmville Facebook craze was all about. My version is City of Wonder. And today I played Words with Friends for the first time. I can't believe I was out of the loop for this long! It should be a crime to exclude such a large percentage of society from this cultural phenomenon. I'm playing virtual scrabble with an old high school friend known as Gidget whom I haven't seen or talked to in fifteen years. We are interacting in each other's lives again, but in a very strange, non-practical way. I love it!

So I hope you'll all be patient with me as you endure my too-frequently-updated Facebook status and constant pleas to join in on virtual games. It won't be long before I'm too busy to worry about allies and marketplaces in my City of Wonder or that “qat” is a real word that can utilize the ten-point “Q” without also having a “U.”