Day 12
I'm skipping day 11 since I have blown my time line and don't really have any super good pictures with friends. What can I say, I don't really own a camera. I hate uploading pics to my computer. I hate uploading those two LJ and I hate getting errors when it doesn't work. Anyhoo,
Day 12 was another day that I had changed the question posed to: What do I do with my spare time?
This question can be approached in a multitude of ways. What do I do outside my job? Well I kind of see my job as one of my pastimes, since I am currently a student and therefore not spending a lot of hours at my job. Ie: my job passes the time I have left after the behemoth of school. In reality, school constitutes one of my interests, just one that I currently spend a lot of time pursuing, kind of like a job. I also have volunteering committments and other things via my church which also take up a lot of time. In other words, I do a lot of things to fill up my spare time, but what exactly is 'spare time' exactly, because I don't really have any! Some people would assume that spare time would refer to hobbies, and the like. I don't have a ton of hobbies at it happens. I do some kitting, and sewing, but the purse strap that I have been sewing/embroidering for the past while has not been really worked on since last summer.
If we are going to talk about pastimes being things that we make space for in our lives, things that we would not do without sufficient effort, I have a few.
The first is camping. I love getting away from the city and hanging out in the forest, doing nothing. I prefer to do that when there are not lots of flies, which is probably the only thing I dislike about camping. One of the primary reasons I like camping is due to the fact that it just allows me to spend a lot of time outside all at once. It's also a cheap way to go on vacation, and provides a bit of adventure for my summer months. I always look forward to my camping trips with my honey. We also recently started fishing, which I surprisingly really like, despite being bad at it. (I'm not super coordinated)
The second is reading. University life does not leave a lot of time in one's life to pursue the act of reading for pleasure. I have found that I really enjoy the act getting fully engrossed in a book, not because it's insightful, or because it will teach me something, but just because I CAN. Most of the time I tend to enjoy what I refer to as 'trashy girl novels' think the shop-a-holic series (even though I don't really like it, but I do like simliar, but less popular books in the same genre) or Twilight. These are books that academically and ideologically I should be against, but I really enjoy reading. I also really enjoy books that have a tragic outcome, but of course there is always a silver lining to these books. When I don't know the author, I sometimes pick a book merely based on the tag line on the cover, or on the picture on the cover. Horrible, yes I know, but I have found a lot of books I have liked this way, and it seems to serve me well. I also like biographies, although they have to have a very intimate connection to the subject themselves. I usually find out about people and then read their biography. It most likely has to do with the fact that I like realism. The story and the characters have to be believable.
Other than that, I don't really have a lot of time for pastimes. There is a lot of stuff I do, because I enjoy it, but that is more a reflection of the fact that I don't tend to do stuff I don't want to do. I just don't see the point. Speaking of things I don't want to do, excuse me while I get started on my history paper.
Day 12 was another day that I had changed the question posed to: What do I do with my spare time?
This question can be approached in a multitude of ways. What do I do outside my job? Well I kind of see my job as one of my pastimes, since I am currently a student and therefore not spending a lot of hours at my job. Ie: my job passes the time I have left after the behemoth of school. In reality, school constitutes one of my interests, just one that I currently spend a lot of time pursuing, kind of like a job. I also have volunteering committments and other things via my church which also take up a lot of time. In other words, I do a lot of things to fill up my spare time, but what exactly is 'spare time' exactly, because I don't really have any! Some people would assume that spare time would refer to hobbies, and the like. I don't have a ton of hobbies at it happens. I do some kitting, and sewing, but the purse strap that I have been sewing/embroidering for the past while has not been really worked on since last summer.
If we are going to talk about pastimes being things that we make space for in our lives, things that we would not do without sufficient effort, I have a few.
The first is camping. I love getting away from the city and hanging out in the forest, doing nothing. I prefer to do that when there are not lots of flies, which is probably the only thing I dislike about camping. One of the primary reasons I like camping is due to the fact that it just allows me to spend a lot of time outside all at once. It's also a cheap way to go on vacation, and provides a bit of adventure for my summer months. I always look forward to my camping trips with my honey. We also recently started fishing, which I surprisingly really like, despite being bad at it. (I'm not super coordinated)
The second is reading. University life does not leave a lot of time in one's life to pursue the act of reading for pleasure. I have found that I really enjoy the act getting fully engrossed in a book, not because it's insightful, or because it will teach me something, but just because I CAN. Most of the time I tend to enjoy what I refer to as 'trashy girl novels' think the shop-a-holic series (even though I don't really like it, but I do like simliar, but less popular books in the same genre) or Twilight. These are books that academically and ideologically I should be against, but I really enjoy reading. I also really enjoy books that have a tragic outcome, but of course there is always a silver lining to these books. When I don't know the author, I sometimes pick a book merely based on the tag line on the cover, or on the picture on the cover. Horrible, yes I know, but I have found a lot of books I have liked this way, and it seems to serve me well. I also like biographies, although they have to have a very intimate connection to the subject themselves. I usually find out about people and then read their biography. It most likely has to do with the fact that I like realism. The story and the characters have to be believable.
Other than that, I don't really have a lot of time for pastimes. There is a lot of stuff I do, because I enjoy it, but that is more a reflection of the fact that I don't tend to do stuff I don't want to do. I just don't see the point. Speaking of things I don't want to do, excuse me while I get started on my history paper.