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Anticipatory Boredom

Solomon just got home from seeing a friend and had earlier expressed concern that he would have nothing to do until going to a birthday party this evening. He flopped into a chair and sighed loudly. I joked that he had been home less than a minute and was already bored to distraction. He said, “It’s anticipatory boredom…Is that a thing?”

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