Nevertheless, he excels in depicting the ordinary, unglamorous side of warfare — whiling away months of boring duty by pulling puerile pranks, instigating fistfights, and pasting porn pictures on the backs of official maps.
"Those books definitely helped pass time during boring duty hours," he said.
Another duty was bucking up the flagging spirits of her husband, who hated the spotlight but who was required to make many public appearances, particularly as his father's health waned and his older brother proved more interested in a racy social life than in boring regal duties.
Like England's Edward II, George II was bored by the duties of kingship and easily swayed by favorites.
Others say that he is still easily bored by royal duties, unlike Princess Sirindhorn, who lives for them.
And it is my boring yet constant duty to explain that books for younger readers are some of the most challenging and well-written material out there.
He found the duty boring and approached the Office of Strategic Services, which took note of his fluent French and assigned him to an operations unit, despite his history with the international brigades in Spain.
"They go to the personal [backgrounds] of the individuals who joined and fill in some of the gaps of what they did and how they did it". For example, Child -- then Julia McWilliams -- sought employment with the OSS after becoming bored with her duties as a typist for the Office of War Information.
Some previously thought of teaching as "boring" or a duty.
On the other hand, to install a deep drilling system using heavy duty boring machines require a minimum of N400,000 (about USD3,200).
He was bored in his promotional duties and came across, he thinks, as boring.
