things i do when i'm bored & some other nifty stuff

for various reasons (social anxiety, not having a job, etc.) , i find myself with a lot of spare time. i'm also told that i don't talk much, which i suppose is true. the combination of factors means i have to amuse myself a lot, so i thought i'd share a few of the ways i've found to do so.
i've always liked to play with everyday objects, a habit that drove my mom crazy when i was little & accident prone. now that i'm less little & under my own jurisdiction most of the time (though still pretty accident prone) i can play with pretty much whatever i like. so, i've become an expert at the lost arts of condiment towers (mainly sugar substitutes & creamer) & shower hair sculpture.
occasionally, if i'm feeling particularly board & ambitious, i'll pick up a paint brush. usually this only leads to frustration & paper wasting, but occasionally i find the results to my liking. this one is something i painted for my human sexuality project a couple of semesters ago, it isn't officially titled, but i've always thought of it as "Parabola" like the Tool song.
sometimes when i find myself caffeine deprived in class i attempt the often misguided desk-doodle. not being the best doodler, i more often just scribble a poem. i left a haiku on a desk in my history class in my spindly, chicken scratch handwriting, only to return to a re-written & illustrated version. it completely made my day. it's a little hard to read, but it says

Face like a Teacup
Overflowing emptiness
Saucer far too small

you can just make out the last line of my original version above the much prettier one. if these solutions fail, there is one more possibility; a wander. this can be just a walk around the neighborhood or if i'm feeling more adventurous (which i'm usually not, unless i have a traveling companion), a train hop to another part of the city. when it's wander time, i like to document the interesting things other people do, like hanging poorly worded signs.
lastly, this doesn't exactly fit in, but it's the best no parking sign i've seen to date, so here you go: