Hi Althea,
Feeling boredom is good - it's a call for action. The only way to curb boredom (take a look at linked topic) is to think. Thinking is great and maybe the only way to curb boredom. If you think, you'll never be bored. The problem is that thoughts don't always come to you but need something to bring them forth. Like speakers of a stereo system, they can't play music without some kind of signal passing through them, bringing about their trembling and thus a production of sound. Your mind can produce thoughts but it needs input.
To get input, you can read (see discussion on becoming well read), you can go to museums (see for example discussion on appreciating modern art), you can see movies, and most importantly you can talk with people, for example here on THINQon where you can both get a lot of ideas and throw them out to see what they produce.
 
Input shouldn't be over-appreciated though. It's good to read and get input, but output is just as important. To continue the speakers analogy from above, you wouldn't want speakers which never speak, or that produce the same input they received (some electronic signal). No matter which speakers they also produce sound, so don't get too caught in simply input.
 
There's really no reason to ever be bored in life. Boredom can be good - it's a call for action.

Althea,

I have found THINQon to be a very interesting and valuable, interactive web site that works well to prevent not just boredom but also anger, frustration and sadness too. Reading and writing in it has lead me to throw away my television. I hated it anyway but used to watch it when bored even though it did not help with my feelings of  boredom because I felt like it was robbing me of my time and self dignity. THINQon never does this ... not ever.  

It took awhile to learn how to work with THINQon. I found that there were a few subjects that I don't care about very much and generally don't read in them. I identified the ones I liked. I have been invited by members to participate in some that I would not have thought I had anything to contribute to but upon getting involved I enjoyed them and learned from participating in them. Most of the posts that interest me I have found by searching the unknown .. by discovery.. which is why it isn't boring. When I encountered words or concepts with which I was unfamiliar I found the back ground information needed to better understand them by researching them on Wikipedia or by Googling which usually made me track information deep into other realms as well. I discovered ways to find people who spoke (wrote) with values and concepts that I liked by looking up the profiles of people on the site that I liked and looked into the people's posts that they liked. I usually find that I like the posts of those followed by the people I follow and often of the people who follow them as do I. It is a nice linking system. I find that my understanding of a person on THINQon evolves from reading what they have written by reading their posts over several times with a time break between the readings. I have found that I like some people for their personal qualities that comes through their writing even though I may not agree with what they are saying specifically. I have realized that it is difficult to write well, clearly, accurately about what I believe or feel and have realized that often it is that same difficulty that other people have as well and that they were misunderstood because they were in a hurry or got too obsorbed in a narrow aspect of their subject, just like I sometimes do.

And most enjoyably, I encountered some people who I found sort of magical for me in how they thought and wrote and found myself sort of riding the wind from their wings. Arguments can be very irritating when the participants can not separate their sense of themselves from their opinions and fun to read when they argue as though they are playing ping pong and the subject matter is the little ball and when they share information that challenges my limited knowledge, and when they write beautifully. Most posts have some beautifuly written passages, or a phrase, sometimes just two or three perfectly chossen words for the concept they are struggling with makes me tear up.

I hope it works for you.

Hi Althea,
I’d like to join Chris in saying that boredom comes not only because of you not finding interesting things to do, but also because interesting things haven’t found their way to catch you.
I’m a pianist and I’ll give you an example in my field : I don’t always choose the piece I will play, sometimes they come to me the indirect way- when an concert organizer asks me to play something specific, or when a colleague wants us to try together a piece I don’t know, and I like those pieces that reveal themselves to me not through my own will just as much as the pieces I’ve consciously chosen (sometimes more, it really depends!)
It is a question of being there to catch the fish when it jumps out of the water, and as Chris says- get input and be open to it. Read, browse, go out to movies and exhibitions, and when something catches your attention that could be of interest, don’t hesitate to go deeper and find out what it is about. Have fun!