Doing Nothing

I have never had a work schedule like this. For more than a week now I go to work without a particular thing to do. My work as a Document Controller in this company had been very lenient that mostly I do not have anything to do throughout the day. Having already updated the databases, my work now begins when there's a new document that needs to be uploaded and updated in the system, which does not happen everyday and which only occurs once or twice at a time. Updating the system only takes about 10-15 minutes. So you can just imagine the things I do to let the time pass by. I surf the net. I am online in facebook and reading status updates from friends all throughout the day. I call my parents just to have a small chat. I read news in yahoo. I open all my email accounts. I write blogs. Wow, I just realized I do alot of things these past few days. The only problem is, they're not work related. And I feel guilty about it. My colleagues have alot of things to do that they sometimes forget the time. (Except when their stomach growls signalling the time for lunch).

I do not like to have this kind of schedule all the days of my life. So I'm thinking of actually asking my boss to give me a routine job to keep me busy. My only problem is if this situation I'm in is just seasonal and sometime soon I'll be busy updating the system with alot of information. Which means asking for an additional routine job would mean punishing myself eventually. But I figured my boss would know whether this situation would be seasonal or not. And asking him for routine work would mean I don't like idle time and that I value my time in the company.

I hope to find the courage to talk to my boss before I get bored with this job.