Word: boredomization
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...drink again. But as difficult as working in Iraq can be, many in the press corps here will tell you that, often, the hardest time is when you're not working. For a journalist, life in Baghdad is about two extremes: risking our lives pursuing stories and battling deadly boredom...
...Office is an acutely funny workplace sitcom in which the cubicle prisoners fight wrenching boredom and dream of escape. By happy coincidence, that describes many actual offices, minus the acutely funny part. So NBC is giving real workers an escape this summer--by offering new episodes of the show to watch online, in the comfort of their own cubicles...
...consideration was Detroit's harsh winters. Although elephants can tolerate cold weather, standing on snow and ice increases the risk of slipping and falling. The only alternative was to have the animals spend most of the winter months indoors, where hard concrete led to foot problems and boredom. Many zoos, like the one in San Diego, have phased out certain species, like the moose, that do better in other climates. "Bringing cold-weather animals into the warm Southern California climate is a bad business decision and a waste of precious resources," says Larry Killmar, the zoo's deputy director...
...along with Lynn Cheney, have little patience for young people's boredom with history...
Your article notes that many students drop out of school because they are bored. That is probably because our culture believes learning should always be fun and entertaining. Dropouts will find out what real boredom is like when they wind up in monotonous, dead-end jobs. But a wide range of abilities and talents exists among people. We made a big mistake when vocational education was de-emphasized or phased...