Word: boredome
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...loneliness that gets to you, really. That and the boredom. Day in and day out, you get up, shower, go to class, take incomprehensible notes, eat lunch, study, eat dinner and sleep. Its an interminable cycle, the only relief coming at Thanksgiving, Christmas, spring break and those national holidays you thank God for everyday, after you bitch and moan to Him about how awful your life is. This is college all right...
...prudes like me who refuse to be swept up by the illusory excitement. Oh, I may be occasionally coerced into making an appearance at a function or two, but I do NOT enjoy it. It's against my nature to partake in artificially induced adrenaline rushes to alleviate the boredom...
...over its Monica obsession, which allowed him to stoke it quietly behind the scenes. What truly concerned him was that the press's eye had wandered since Clinton's Aug. 17 confession. Too many shows were going off-topic, too many talking heads exclaiming over Mark McGwire and showing boredom with Monica Lewinsky. It was fear of increasing scandal fatigue that prompted Gingrich's biggest blunder of the campaign: devising, testing and spending $10 million on TV spots reminding voters of what a snake the President was--a subject the electorate was trying to forget...
Truth be told, the plot is hardly action-packed or particularly original, but this doesn't mean that Evening is any less interesting to read. Minot saves us from boredom through her experimentation with words, which becomes the true focal point of the novel and admirably recreates Ann's sentiments and state of mind. At times, the boundaries of grammar dissolve into an endless stream of images that jump from fragments of one remembered moment or conversation to another. Smelling the balsam in a cushion someone gave her, for instance, sets off a chain of memory in which...
...University of Cincinnati study found that problematic computer users tend to be most mesmerized by interactive pursuits--frequenting chat rooms and other multiuser domains, writing e-mail, surfing the Web, playing games. These can serve as a haven for workers from procrastination, boredom and feelings of isolation at work; the fantasy world they offer can be an attractive alternative to the daily grind. "It's an altered state of reality," reports Young. "It's like a drug rush." Depression, she and others believe, can be a result of--not the cause of--compulsive computer use: after someone has been parading...