bored

i don't usually grouse about being bored... usually i can find something to do, even, sometimes something i want to do, but today work is all about hurry up and wait. i've been running the kind of report that i can't do anything (really) while it's running... and i've been running the kind of report that needs three reports to get all the data where it needs to be, and while it's all running i'm sitting here, doing pretty much nothing and being bored. it's the kind of day where i wish i were working in a bookshop, with my cat, and while i'm bored and waiting for things to happen at least i could be finishing up the last section of my current book, watching a cup of tea brew, thinking about what i'm going to read next and stroking the cat... because he likes it, nowadays - i.e. now that he's getting worrisome old - when i pay a little nonchalant attention to him.