There are times when I wish I could get a new computer, but I worry what I’d do with all that lost time. Now, I sit and I wait. I tap at my phone, which sometimes feels just as slow. There is a whine and and grind, and a flicker inside behind all the plastic tells me that something is eventually going to happen.
This is the moment, or series of moments, full of anticipation and disappointment for me. To you it may be unrecognisable, but too me it’s the part of my day which belittles all my finest efforts to become a better and more productive individual. It is when my computer starts up.
To counter these intense frustration I took to tappitying on my phone, but that in its own right brings a similar level of frustration. Of late I’ve found a way to make the time pass more enjoyably, to the point that I don’t even notice when my computer has finished booting.
When we were in primary school the odd time we’d get a teacher in the to keep and eye on us for half an hour or an hour so that we wouldn’t run riot and defile the entire classroom, as experience had taught our teachers wisely. Once in a while a teacher, clearly stumped with how to entertain a completely different group of scoundrels not of her own understanding, would distribute blank sheets of paper, pencils, and crayons with the instruction that we should ‘take the pencil for a walk’ then colour in the spaces. If there’s one thing I love to mess around with it’s colour, and when I was younger this was no different.
Anyway, now I’m older messing around with colour is a less than frequent activity, but thanks to my dingy computer my line walk taking has experienced a rebirth. Unfortunately I’ve only got five colours, not including the usual black and red pens which are adept at getting lost under all the other crap on my desk.
Regardless. Behold. My new boot time pastime is becoming me.
What do you do during down time?