Word: boredoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spasms can occur at any time. In a restaurant, during a public appearance, his body can suddenly jerk about wildly; since brain messages do not get through to the body, it spasms as if out of boredom, waiting for orders that do not come. He had a major spasm three minutes before he went on live at the televised Academy Awards presentation in March--just as he was being rolled out the door of his dressing room...
...fireworks did not begin at the scheduled time. To combat boredom, one member of my group suggested that we sing the national anthem. Amused, we all agreed...
...haven't the faintest idea," I answered, with as much authority as those paltry words can carry. The conversation carried on for a few more minutes and then died the death of boredom and mutual apathy. I had another 33 minutes of air-borne time to think about my future and my goals and other light topics...
Like researchers in all fields, I have also known disappointment, boredom, surprise and even irony. One example was especially instructive. The painful reality of cancer has always loomed in the background of my work, because my mother and her mother died of breast cancer. For this reason, my lab studied for many years a virus that causes breast cancer in mice, in hopes of finding relatives of human breast cancer genes. Ultimately, we discovered interesting genes that guide formation of the brain and other organs. But, in this case, they don't appear to be involved in human cancer...
...also love American history or French literature or John Locke, then this decision is monumental. Essentially it asks: Do I hereby hand over a significant portion of my college education to some intro-level science and math courses which will be tremendous sources of frustration and boredom? Or, phrased more generally: Do I sacrifice the life-enriching privileges of a liberal arts education for a possible or likely career goal...