amused

things have been slow-ish here at work. it's good to get a breather now and then, but it makes the day go slower. last year in slow season i was training to go from booking just rail to booking entire vacation packages. the year before i spent my spare time reading and making portraits of myself (see above) and my co-workers in my paint application.

i'm very imaginative when it comes to amusing myself. when i was growing up there were only a few times we ever said, "mom, i'm bored" because my mom would say, "you are? why don't you go ahead and clean your room or the bathroom then. you could mop the floor while you're at it". sly woman. she either got a clean house or kids that stayed out of her hair. win-win situation.

the result of her brilliance is that i can now amuse myself in almost any scenario. at thirty years of age i can still retreat into my imagination with the ease of a ten-year-old, and lose myself for hours in a novel, online or (better yet!) with an atlas or encyclopedia. i could spend a whole afternoon with a map or two and be perfectly content.

but now there's blogs. i have a good dozen i go to daily, sometimes more than once a day. all the blogs linked on mine i visit regularly. i've called them 'blog buddies' but maybe i should call them 'blogs i stalk'. it's great to be able to catch up on people, but a little disappointing when i run through all the blogs and not one of them has anything new to read. it's like going through a whole day without getting an email. pathetic, aren't i? but at least i'm not bored.