Things to do when you're bored!

Remember when you were a kid and it would rain during Christmas or summer vacation and you'd get really bored and whine to your mother? And then she'd come up with a list of stuff to do, and you'd better do one of them or she'd get you doing chores?

Well, it seems to me that there are a big bunch of really bored people in fandom at the moment, and they just need some things to do! They pretty obviously lack imagination, so telling them to go be creative I don't think is really to the point. Here's some suggestions I came up with:

--Volunteer locally
--Rearrange your closet
--Get tax documents ready for the new year
--Clean out the bathroom
--See a movie
--Read a book
--Go for a drive
--Download some Black Lace novels
--Have some sex
--Get out the play-doh/fingerpaints
--Memorize the questions in your Trivial Pursuit deck so you can finally beat your damn brother
--Call your friend from high school that you haven't talked to in for ever
--Start writing thank you notes. You know what Aunt Miriam gave you, anyway.
--Origami
--Make some PoA icons
--Read old magazines, especially from the year you were born
--Do the laundry and surprise your mum
--Clean your harddrive and organize your iTunes
--Do that "stories I wrote this year" meme
--Do the yousendit meme
--Make up your own damn meme

Have anything to add to the list? Comment, and I'll put it in the entry!

Thankful.

And then there are the friends, fandom and non, who are (often) here in NYC and who I get to see all the time because I'm lucky like that: epicyclical and rubydebrazier and ladyjaida and tromboneborges. I know I keep using this phrase, but I am lucky to have them in my life. I mean that.