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Lately, my life's been reduced to work and video games.
It's all I do.
So when friends/family call and ask what I've been doing lately, I usually reply with "nothing."
And when I say it, I generally mean "Nothing significant" or "Nothing worth mentioning" or "Nothing you'd be interested in hearing".
In fact, sometimes, it really does mean 'nothing'-- I'll just be lying around.

No one is upset by this response more than my previous boyfriend. As usual, he calls and asks what I'm doing and I say it: "Nothing."

"Nothing?" he replies.
And I re-state it: "Nothin'."
"You can't be doing 'nothing'," he says.
And I sort of wish he could see me just shrug my shoulders in response.

For some reason, this bothers him and I recently came across a Facebook status update of his:
(His name) "no longer finds your apathy entertaining, or aloof; he sees it now as common, depressed, and almost as insulting as this."

I'm considering making up grandiose stories to tell him next time he calls and asks what I'm doing.

"Me? Oh, I'm just working on a new flux capacitor for the LHC. What're you up to?"

I grow sick of his insecure bullshit.