As the Mind Turns May 08, 2003 - 4:07 p.m.

One day, I'll become a famous scientist or doctor. My claim to fame will be winning some award... Pulitzer, Nobel... for developing a cure for a disease that everyone carries, and can be highly contagious. Boredom.

Boredom is a plague to all of civilization. Boredom spawns many viruses that show themselves in the form of bad ideas. Boredom hinders people from making good decisions and blinds them from seeing the awful decisions and, more importantly, avoiding them. It's a disease that is wide spread. Possibly even as expansive as the entire universe.

Then again... while being bored and giving it some thought, I've realized boredom has it's benefits. Without boredom, you wouldn't think about such things as eliminating severe diseases. Boredom allows creativity to flow and inspires new developments that are often fantastic and even revolutionary. Boredom causes growth, not only in mind but in society and environments as well.

That's it! I won't merely abolish boredom, I'll develop the finest means of utilizing boredom to it's fullest potential!

Okay. Maybe not.

My cure for boredom usually consists of playing with hair or watching television. Not too inventive, are we now?

Currently, I'm sporting a spiffy Princess Leia-esque hairdo. While bored, I decided to mingle pigtails and braids with some twisting and pinning. This, opposed to some more useful reading or cleaning. Oh yeah, I'm such a master at dispersing my time wisely. Playing with hair when I should be finding a consistent job. Mhmm. Splendid idea.

Actually, I don't know if I've mentioned this or not, but while I was handing out tampons and selling tickets, my mom had a conversation with the owner of Petsmart. The exact pet shop that I was so very impressed with and have been considering an attempt at employment. He's setting up a new store in the next week or so and is very interested in the possibility of both my mom and I working there. She has managerial background and I have an extensive pet background, so we'd be perfect. Plus, if she were to work there, I would have a ride to work without having to bother Chris too often. That is, if we both got the job and had at least similar shifts.

But I don't want to get my hopes up. There have been many promising situations that have panned out to be completely nothing. At the same time, I don't have any reason to think I wouldn't get the job.

I wonder what kind of dress code they have. Will they allow my Leia haired, green/purple eyed, punk rock jewelry clad ass? I don't see why not. But will they feed my creative-hungry boredom? You never know. They will supply a check... so no complaints.

Speaking of money. The dogs' shots are only going to be about a hundred dollars. We're going to wait on having Lady groomed because I did such a groovy job in cutting her knots away, so that'll save about forty bucks. But I've told mom that I could come up with at least one mortgage payment. So there goes my next check and any other money that I currently have. No money... so what am I going to do for Chris' birthday, which is Tuesday?

Maybe he'd be okay with a cake and a kiss.

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