It’s been seven days since I was laid off from my magazine gig and I am bored.

Like really, really, really bored. And while I’ve been trying to fill my time with trips to the gym (working on the beach bod), jaunts into the city for coffee (love Porto Rico), and the occasional lunch with pals who feel sorry for me (fabulous), I’m still pretty bored.

So, when I found this wild article in The Guardian today about boredom, I had to share it with SMITH.

First, some points from the piece:

Some surveys put the percentage of people who yearn for more novelty in their lives at around 70% and rising.

Until at least the 17th century being bored was an elite privilege, bragged about by princes and the nobility.

The paradox is that boredom seems to have become democratised in exact proportion to the explosion of reasons not to be bored: books, affordable international travel, and the mass media.

OK, so what does this mean? Well, the more bored we are as a species, the more likely we are to create really boring websites for the increasingly dull masses. Check it: There’s one site called Cheddarvision, which invites VERY bored voyeurs to watch cheese mature, and there’s another site called watching-paint-dry.com. Wow. That’s really depressing.

Bored at work or been laid off? You can read more about the explosion of boring websites here.