The holidays can be mind numbingly dull and on visiting social networking sites such as Facebook most people have ‘is bored’ as their status. Well perhaps if they were to go out and actually socialise they wouldn’t be as bored but for most teenagers physical socialising has become something of a lost activity. Why have conversations in person when chat rooms exist? Why play games with family and friends when the computer chair and desk are so inviting?

A few weeks ago when visiting Lincoln University the journalism lecturer said that most people live in a box. They work in a box, they drive home in a box, go home to watch the box and then eventually get carried out in a box. Technology is gradually turning the human race into cavemen again, too frightened to leave the house in case somebody was to go and start a conversation. Has the human race, after achieving so much gone back to boring simplistic lifestyles?

So what can a person do in slightly more than a week’s holiday? I suppose loads of things could be done if the week was completely clear, but it isn’t. As half term approaches all the schools supply the students enough work just to make sure they are kept occupied over the ‘break’. However in the White household I have found it increasingly easy to ignore this work, after all, I have had quite a lot of practice!

The holidays have an odd effect on me; suddenly the little details of my life are not quite right. For instance the layout of my room needed a change as the bed and desk seemed to be in the wrong place. Instead of having milk in the morning coffee has been my choice of drink and all the plates, empty cans and sweet wrappers which once covered my floor have been picked up. Despite all of this tidying up and ‘sorting life out mania’ I have still found time to sit with a beer and watch stupid amounts of television.

It’s impossible to spend all of the holidays sitting in front of the television with a beer though. For a start there isn’t that much on television apart from BBC repeats and after a while beer gains a bitter taste. For this reason I get overly ambitious and start ridiculous projects, such as writing a book to play off the success of my website. There is no method behind the madness though, the holidays are there and it’s a challenge to find something to fill them with.

For a couple of years there have been petitions to make St Georges day a national holiday and for the summer holidays to be slightly longer. Why on earth do people want longer holidays? Having extra national holiday’s sounds great but at the end of the day everybody will be sitting in their homes thinking “When will this boredom be over?”