{"text":"A guilty conscience pushed me to try harder—which I did for what seemed like a tremendous amount of wasted time, staring bug-eyed at uncooperative pencils. What was missing? The answer seemed obvious—intense emotional incentive. But at the moment I didn’t feel desperate or angry or afraid. Just severely bored out of my mind and guilt-ridden for feeling so mind-numbingly b.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["bored","boredom","guilty-conscience","gwen","phantom-s-veil","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich"],"id":63301,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"}