My advice is that much as it sucks, you need to get used to being bored. Ask your father how much of his day is boring, especially when he has to go to a talk or colloquium. That is what it will be like if you do end up with a job.
Uh, I'm sorry you feel that way, Tallulah, but I think this is really bad advice, and I would certainly be surprised if the OP's physicist father replied with a significant proportion. I certainly am practically never bored in my academic job, and I'm sure the same is true of the people who are more talented than me. Talks and colloquia, in particular, are seldom boring, and if one occasionally makes the mistake of going to one that is, that's what the pencil and paper in one's pocket or the laptop are for :-)
Housework is not stimulating in the same way, of course, but to me "boring" is things which are neither fun nor worthwhile. I didn't see the OP suggest that everything needed to be fun.
I agree that it's possible to not go to lectures at university, but it would of course be better to find a university course that has interesting lectures.
