I've been awake since around 4:00 a.m. and finally got up (but went to bed at 9:00-9:30 so around 7 hours sleep). I'm in the middle of writing a school paper I'm not in the mood to write. I wake in the morning with "Oh! My paper, I have to write two more pages today!" but that quickly moves into disappointment and resistance. I hate the flip flop between thinking there's something to do and finding, "Oh, it's that." I feel cheated.

When I have trouble getting out of a mood, I remember my T teaching me that feelings and moods are like weather and come and go. Eventually the boredom will be replaced with something else, eventually my paper will be finished (by Sunday :-) I did learn near the end of therapy to "sit with" whatever I was feeling instead of resisting it and that seemed to make it easier to bear, got it moving on a little faster?

Sometimes I get pedantic and do something like study "boredom" when I'm bored :-) Do you know there's now a "boredom proneness scale?" http://uwf.edu/svodanov/boredom/bps.htm