when you're ground to the ground with routine and ennui, boredom sets in

it's just the same thing day in day out, except that it's "different" than the day before

Its hard though some days its easy to see this and some days it feels like everything is meaningless. At least its like that for me. I sometimes can go a whole day and just not feel or experience anything and be totally numb. Today was like that for me which was bad because for 3 hours of it this girl I knew was talking to me and never really caught on I wasn't all that interested and zoned out for a very significant portion of it.

I usually feel numb when I feel bad.
The story about the girl... Find different people to talk to.
I know people like that and I try to avoid them like the plague.

The only times I've gotten bored regularly the last few years have been in lectures that were either too simple or too difficult so that I didn't manage to connect with what was being taught. In other words, I got frustrated with having to sit and wait for something to be over and done with before I could do something I liked. I can't say I felt there's much existentialist anxiety involved in being bored on my part, at least not consciously, but then again I don't normally suffer from boredom. There's just so much to do during a day!

i do suffer from a lot of existentialist angst

It may not be boredom after all, it's just how you perceive it.

Driven individuals like you & I will have a much more difficult time coping with idle time because to us it represents a complete waste.

Being bored and looking for something to occupy yourself is very different from the state of boredom where nothing seems to interest you. I've experienced both, but the latter state seems to have eroded from my life entirely. And that's not a bad thing at all.

I am quite concerned about my posts in this thread. It seems as though they were written by two different people :O. I don't know how or why my perspective on things fluctuate so immensely. I thought I was growing out of that stuff but evidently not.

Only boring people get bored.

I never get bored.
Awwwww yeah!

Unless you've been having real-world problems I wouldn't worry about a few idle posts here and there. There are old habits (even cognitive ones) that we slip in and out of from time to time.

I know I definitely get a little nuts if I'm low on sleep...