Bored and Seeking Adventure

Bored and broke: The Student's guide to summer.

Yeah, really? Really life? I have all of this time on my hands and no extra spending money. I don't go back to school until September. I would take summer courses but, they cost $750 and I don't have that kind of money.

I am looking for a full-time job but this town has nothing. It is a college town. Everyone is looking for work. I had an interview on Monday and I was supposed to hear back yesterday. It sounded extremely promising: here's to hoping the guy is just lazy and hasn't called me back. I called him back today and left a message.

I live with my boyfriend and he is busier than I am. He just got a full-time job and he is working at his parents' over the summer as well. So I am a fucking apartment-girlfriend (not house-wife because this is an apartment and we are not married). 

I am bored. This is boring. I hate this. I love being here, but I need a job. Desperately. I need to fill my time. 

I was talking to a girl from my part-time job which is not giving me any new hours... (ugh), and she was just like "So what are you doing during your time? You sound like you're not doing anything?". After explaining my past day to her, waking up at 10am, watching TV and eating, going to the gym, coming back and watching more TV and eating more food until 5:15 when I worked... that's not what I want. 

I don't want this blog post to be me just complaining about being bored and broke, I am trying to work through it as I type to find a solution.

I have some hobbies, like writing, sewing, reading, and drawing that I could do. I have been doing them. I've been watching a lot of TV and my boyfriend got me playing Okami on his PS3. 

What do I want other than a job? Time. That makes no sense. I am bored, I want less time. But I want a full-time job and then time to take road trips. That would be nice. Realistically, I want more friends in North Bay. All I have is my boyfriend, essentially. I didn't make too many friends in university outside of my roommates and they've all gone home for the summer. My friends from high school are all back home for the summer too.

I am visiting my mom's this weekend until Wednesday, and as much as I am going to miss my boyfriend, I am going to be glad to see my friends and have some variety in my life. I'm craving an adventure. I am going to seek one out once I get there. Meet up with some friends, talk to my mom, visit my old high school. Get some perspective from other people on my life. 

So... it's time to stop being boring and start being adventurous, Sarah.

I will write 2 blog posts by Wednesday focusing on my adventures in the most boring cities on earth: where I live now and Belleville. Fuck. 

Technology is making us L-A-Z-Y

Lately, I found myself often pondering on the idea of technological advancement.

When will it come to a halt/standstill or plateau?
Will it lead to the downfall of the human race, or any other animal?
Why is technology bad?
Why is technology good?
Does technology help us or hinder us?


My personal belief is that some technology is good and some of it is bad.

Examples of Good Technology are things that help people as well as the environment, other animals or the earth or possible the universe in general.
- Reading glasses
- Books (yes I am claiming books are technology)
- Telephones
- The bicycle

Examples of "Bad" Technology:
- Any piece of machinery that has to do with whatever Monsanto or any other company because they are polluting the earth and the plants (which are IRREPLACEABLE) with genetically modified crap and then making us pay for food which should be rightfully ours as members of this planet
- Cars (Do we really need to travel THAT far THAT often? Basically everywhere we go is in walking or biking distance but people are too lazy)

Too lazy. Let's just dwell on this point for a while. The reason why technology is becoming a "bad" thing is because it's making people lazier. Instead of farming we are going to work at a sit-down job and then run on a treadmill later to burn calories so we don't become obese. Have you noticed how obese we are all getting? We don't need this much food in our bodies yet with the combination of fast-food chains and video games, we are making it so easy to become unhealthy.

We are killing ourselves. We don't care enough to put a stop to our misuses of technology because, well, we are too lazy too! It is so easy to think something on the internet like what I am doing right now, talking about technology or Billy-Joe is on youtube commenting on some video saying "ABORTION IS BAD".

Is this where we are at? A society of overweight people who are too lazy to do anything about it other than complain on twitter or eat ice cream with genetically modified ingredients to console our natural emotions? Apparently.

I have also been dwelling on the idea of creativity lately. I think the internet has removed the ability to be creative. About half an hour ago I was trying to think of a title for something I was writing and I wanted it to have something to do with sadness/depression and something to do with happiness. The first word to do with happiness that came to my mind was "bunnies" and then my brainstorm session was over. Why? I decided to google "happy things". I immediately stopped in my tracks.

I was so lazy to creatively think of happy things that I googled "happy things". Do you see how lazy we are getting? This is just a really small thing but I immediately caught onto it.

Our laziness is taking over our creativity and minds. We would rather watch a TV show than write our own. We would rather google "how to run" than experiment with running ourselves. We are a cautious, lazy, scared society and I honestly want to do something about it.

But I am too lazy. This blog post will most likely end my journey of trying to get people to stop being lazy.

At least I do better than the people on youtube misspelling "craitionism" (creationism) and aborshun (abortion).

That leads me to another idea, the way we compare ourselves to each other; I am going to stick a pin in the idea of comparison and write about it another time.

Too busy, not busy enough

I have had a lot of "bloggable" things on my mind lately. My computer has been acting up lately, so I didn't get a chance to blog each thing individually, in depth. So I will just generally talk about what I've been thinking about.

I have been extremely bored all week. Bored and lazy. I have had nothing to do at school, and I had supply teachers all week. I always save my homework and assignments for Sunday mornings, so this morning when I had 3 things to do, I was so excited. I have just been so unchallenged lately. Peer tutoring is the only challenge I have at school. Things just seem to be moving so slow.

I have been so lazy--- and STRESSED OUT about BEING lazy, that on Saturday I woke up, got dressed, and started crying because I had to go to work. I took the day off as a mental health day. I just needed a day off, even though I have pretty much had the whole week off. But I am glad I did it. I just needed that day. It is weird that even though I have been bored all week that I needed to take another day off.

All I know is that I need a new challenge. I think I am going to pour my energy into three things:
1. My half marathon is on Sunday, so I am doing last minute training stuff. Sort of, I don't want to injure myself again! But today I am running 10k, but I am doing it at a fast pace. Tuesday or Wednesday I am going to do 15k-21k then on Friday I am going to do a little run, maybe 5k or so, just before the weekend. Also, I'm going to pour my energy into my bodybuilding as well. Today I am doing back. Monday I am doing abs and chest. Tuesday I am not sure if I am doing anything other than running or cardio. Wednesday is Shoulders, Thursday is back, Friday I am not sure if I am going to the gym, but if I do I am going to do a lot of stretching. Saturday I am going to toronto and then Sunday is the half marathon!
2. I am trying to read this book, but it is hard to get through the first few chapters. It's a sociology book I picked up from chapters, I thought seemed interesting. It's called "Going solo" by Eric Klinenberg.
3. I am going to start writing my essay for writers craft. I decided my final project is an essay. My topic for the essay is either "Why people think I am smart" or "Why I am not smart". It's going to be a satirical essay. But it is going to have to be pretty long. I think the rough copy is due in 2-3 weeks.

I hate having too much to do, but I also hate having too little to do. I need to find my balance.

Let's do this!