Today I have one question for you.
What do people do with all their time?
Or, rather, since people always seem to be complaining about not having enough time for anything, what would they do is they did have time.
Let me explain.
Since pretty much Christmas until a couple of weeks ago I spent almost all my free time studying. First I got four or five exams out of the way in the first two months, and then two months of trying to get myself to remember everything there is to remember in five courses of high school biology.
And then, suddenly, after the biology exam, I realise I have no idea what to do with myself. There's just so much time now that I don't have to spend it all studying. Now I have absolutely nothing I even should be doing. With that I have also noticed, that when you're trying to avoid doing something you should, it's easier than anything to spend all the time you have simply doing something else.
Simply said, I now have all the time in the world to do what ever I want with it, and no idea how to use it all.
So far this hasn't really been a problem. Right now what I'm doing is wake up in the morning, work for five-six hours, find myself something to eat, and then read for about eight hours, because I can't think of anything better to do (don't take me wrong, I think it's a great use of my time, though on many days around seven or eight I start feeling like I could do something else for a while). Which is why I have managed to read both of already published books of The Kingkiller Chronicle (yeah, I read the second one during the last week. When is the third one coming out!?), which means about 2000 pages. Yesterday I borrowed a couple of books from a friend, so I have something to read for the next couple of days. Then I'm out of books to read. Then I really won't know what to do with my time.
I mean, obviously there are a million books in the world I haven't even heard about, but I haven't heard about them, so that doesn't really help.
I can't even play my flute, because it's broken.
So what I need right now is either
1. Someone to tell me what normal people, who don't spend all their time reading books, do with all their time, so I can do that too.
2. Someone to tell me what I want to read next, preferably a series of thick fantasy novels.
I've also been told I should try playing a game over the internet with other people that from having absent-mindedly watched people playing a few games looks to me like it's a little like catch-the-flag, except instead of finding a flag, you have to destroy the other team's tower. I don't know. I've never learned to play video games.
Though I admit Portal is pretty cool.
Maybe I should buy a 2000-piece jigsaw puzzle.
~matu
Personally, I spend most of my time on tumblr, and I'll have you know I follow several science blogs and there is a surprising amount or politics and social justice and important things. So it's not like I just watch cat gifs all day. Now, I myself have a job, which actually takes up most of my time, so I have like five-ish hours (depending on how much I want to sleep) per day to actually do that, so I'm not sure what I would do if I had 12+h. Because there is only so much dash you can go through per day.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite pastimes is TV and movies. So if you're interested, I could recommend some new shows for you? Unfortunately you know more fantasy books than I do, so I can't recommend any of those...
So wait, are you talking about strategy games? I build a base, you build a base then we attack the eachother's bases? Because those are nothing like Portal. But I can recommend some video games, just tell me what kind you want. RPG, adventure, puzzle, fighting, building, survival? Do you want it to be an MMO or do you want to play alone?
Basically I can recommend you series/movies(/anime, if you wanna watch that... I can remember you watching Mermaid Melody Pitchi Pitchi Pitch with me from youtube YEARS ago) or games.
A puzzle is also good, get the Starry Night (by Van Gogh), that will take you FOREVER.
~Pie
Hmm, well, good movies are always good. TV shows... Well, good TV shows are always good, too, but I've somehow right now in a situation where I spend time reading books instead of watching eight episodes of some show every day, and I think I prefer it that way.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what RPG is, or MMO (though I'm assuming from the context that you play with other people over the internet). My knowledge of videogames is pretty much limited to what ever we played on the computer when we were kids, and after that some games on Wii Fit and Party, and Portal, and watching some people play games I don't even know the names to. Some Zelda. Minecraft, DOTA, and what ever is the name for the one for Wii where you fight with Nintendo characters. I don't know if I'd be up for it, really. Though a friend of mine keeps telling me that since I like board games, I would like video games too, given the chance. Also, the only thing I have to play on is my laptop with Ubuntu, which effectively rules out pretty much almost everything.
BTW, on a completely different topic, I found the best explanation as to why university math sucks in The Wise Man's Fear: "Unfortunately the loftier peaks of mathematics did not delight me. I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that only speak of numbers are of little interest to me."
~matu