Attention Span

It's harder to focus on things these days. I lose interest in things very quickly. I surf articles I think I'd like to read, but give up halfway because I lose interest in the topic.

Not good when you're bored of things. 

What does one do when one gets bored too easily? Nothing seems to hold my attention for very long. 

Today

I did nothing but roll around in bed all day long. I set up a laptop to watch Mighty Ducks 3. It was hilariously bad.

I did do some laundry though. Now that's useful.

Ceiling fans

Have you ever looked up at a ceiling fan and wondered if a ceiling fan had ever dropped and sliced up anyone? Especially when you see one wobble so...

Bedridden

Not feeling very well. Have been confined to bed. A lot of rest, the doctor said, is required.

What a load of baloney.

Already I'm bored outta my wits from doing nothing and you want me to take it further and lay down all day long and do more of...nothing?

Facebook

Do you ever wonder why people add you to their facebook friends' list when they clearly have no intention of reconnecting with you? Like when someone messages you out of the blue saying they went to elementary school with you...and you think back, and yeah you remember a little ponytailed face that slightly resembles the profile picture...so you add them thinking...hey this might be fun...only they never message you again.

I suppose facebook has reinvented the way we socialise online. You're now expected to keep up with people by going to their facebook pages. It's acceptable to never have any real contact with them. As long as you keep up to date with their walls...that's as good as talking to them without really talking.

I think.

Body or brain

So I keep thinking about which is stronger. The body or the brain. My high school math teacher once told us of a top secret study that was conducted by the US military on this. Apparently they had a volunteer convict on death row do this.

Instead of the chair, they had him sign an agreement to an alternate end. They told him they were going to bleed him to death for a study that was going to aid medical research. They put him on a chair in a white room (why white?), and had him put his arm through a hole in the wall so he could not see what was being done to his arm on the other side. But he could hear what was going on and someone on the other side would narrate what was happening.

So they had him sitting all comfortably on the chair, with his arm unseen through a wall. Then they cut his hand and told him that he was slowly bleeding. He could hear the dripping of his own blood into a container of some sort. The narrator on the other side kept score of how much blood he was losing and at what level should he begin to feel drowsy, pale and faint.

Apparently they didn't really cut him enough to really bleed all that much. But they had a drip on the other side filled with some sticky liquid dripping into a pail and it sounded like his blood. A few hours later, the man, having truly believed he was bleeding to death just stopped breathing. He just died, from sheer belief that he had bled to death.

We all believed my math teacher. Nobody thought to question how he knew about this top secret study if it were so top secret. Boy were we gullible.

Or were we?

Maybe the brain can overcome the body. It's just mind over matter, folks...mind over matter.

Breakfast

I woke up at 6:30 am today. I didn't feel like having breakfast yet so I rolled around in bed for a bit. I've read that you should have breakfast within an hour and a half of waking up in order to start up your metabolism and have it running efficiently.

Didn't feel like it, so I stayed in bed thinking maybe my body wouldn't know it was awake if it hadn't gotten out of bed yet. I wonder which knows better. The body or the brain.

Fighting world hunger

You know how common sense isn't very common these days? Well I'm going to call entries like these, uncommon sense...entries that start with a Did you know-like theme.

The UN has released figures showing that the Asia Pacific region has the largest number of hungry people in the world at 642 million, compared to 265 million in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Bet you thought more African children were suffering from malnutrition than Asian kids, eh.

Oranges. Beware, they can be dangerous

My lover broke his nail peeling an orange for me today.

Who would have thought oranges could be dangerous.

He yelped in pain.

Poor him.

This morning

I woke up and walked to the bathroom. I felt like a bowl of jello hobbling to the bathroom. I need to get fit.

So I rolled my exercise ball to the desk.

And I've been sitting on it ever since.

It's not morning anymore.

I read about how exercise balls are making an appearance in offices these days. Experts are discussing the pros and cons to having exercise balls instead of chairs in offices. One guy made an excellent point. What if you lose your balance and fall off? Might not look so professional, would it? What would you have to do to regain your composure after falling off a ball in a suit?

Worse, what if you fell off because you fell asleep at your cubicle?

Lines of boredom made real

I don't even know what the title of this blog means.

I do know, that I am bored out of my wits with life. And I can't seem to find the motivation to change it.

So humour me while I write about how disinterested I am with everything.