If only I were more of a rebel...

I'm so bored. So. very. bored. My boss is not in the office this week, and I am all by my lonesome with very little (almost none, really) work to do. I realize most people would find this quite blissful, but I just find it boring. Maybe it's worse because my actual office doesn't have any windows. Either way, I am learning that I am a happier member of productive society when I have something to do. I think tomorrow I will bring in one of my summer reading books and just go to town with it. Someone has already reprimanded me for not reading the new Harry Potter, so maybe I'll pick up a copy tonight and start that.

At the moment, I am working up the nerve to play hookey (sp?) for the rest of the day. Not that this would normally be an issue, but I've been on the job for less than a month, so I'm having some issues with feeling guilty about leaving. Then again, there isn't anything I'd be missing out on here.

I've spent the last 2 days doing a lot of Internet browsing. I have to say that I had no idea there were SO MANY PEOPLE with weblogs (blogs, web logs, whatever these things are called). Some of them are actually pretty interesting and funny. I don't know why I find it so fascinating, and I admit that I get bored with it fairly quickly. Not that spending hours playing Panda Golf is any better. I blame I for sending me the link yesterday.

I've thoroughly enjoyed spending some time with the boyfriend this week. Monday night we spent a few hours at an all-you-can-eat crab house. After such a long heatwave, it was such a relief to be able to sit outside by the water without losing my body weight in sweat. Would you believe that this was also the first time I'd eaten MD crabs? The boyfriend and his family have a background in selling MD crabs, so I had the benefit of a crab connoisseur's advice on how to eat them. Contrary to popular belief, it is not necessary to use the mallets as often as one would think. I used it once, I think. I used to be a little skeeved out at the idea of eating something that still resembles its original, living, breathing self, but it's not so bad. And I'm a fan of the old bay and vinegar!

Ok, enough of this rambling. I think I will cut out early--life's too short to spend it wasting away in an empty office with nothing to do.