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In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

I would seriously love to become more idle. That is, at this moment, my highest aspiration. Right now I sort of just want to shoot myself in the throat because I feel like all I do is go to work, and stay late at work, and then feel terrible at times like this one because I should be catching up on work before I go to bed, but actually I just got back from work, plus I gotta get up soon and go back to work, and in any case I'm starting to feel like quite the dull girl and all this work work work work is really kind of just totally destroying my body and crushing my spirit.... Do you guys remember when I didn't even HAVE a job, and all I did was lie around all day long reading novels and eating bonbons and writing book reports? God, those were the days. I mean, they really were. I honestly used to think that I had something called a "work ethic," and that I actually did enjoy working, provided it was the right sort of job, but since then I've discovered the truth, which is that I'm an essentially lazy person, and if I had my way, I'd have nothing to do with this depraved institution called "earning a living."Anyway, if Bertrand Russell has got some suggestions on how I can create and maintain a life of blissful indolence, I would love to hear them. Of course, the predictable irony here is that there's no way in hell that I will ever find the time to read this book. Yeah. Ugh. Somebody call the wah-mbulance.
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