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I had a long night up; my morning meeting is canceled this week so I don't feel a striking need to come in early today and spent all night trying to convince friends from St Louis to move to Seattle* and looking for new music. I also drank more then I expected, which means I don't have much for tonights dinner. That's what I get for not paying attention though.
While functionally wasting my time, I contemplated that I've got my time pretty well occupied in general lately. I'm pretty stoked about that, because it also means I'm getting out more which I'm pretty sure I need to do. I spent about 6 months after I started up here a little cooped up, which isn't to say that was bad. I needed my solitude, but whatever. I'm engaged with my hobbies again and spending a lot of effort on them.
One thought lead to another, and I was thinking that taking your hobbies seriously is a good thing. Hobbies are one of our ways of interacting with the world, kind of a specialized way, but something where we select something and get to learn about it. I think people should take the time to figure out what it is that makes things tick, which is one of the reasons why I'm so interested in critical literature theory. Breaking down game systems or observing gamer groups are other parts of this, but I've drawn a pretty narrow focus. Just the other day I wrote a few pages on media tone in American news after the shooting of Dr. Tiller. While it's a morbid subject (I feel that the shooting is a symptom, not a cause, of a violence-promoting media-subset), I wouldn't have spent two hours looking up information, citing it, writing it and posting it if it didn't do something for me. It wasn't fun in the normal way, but essays and writing are passions of mine. If you're a computer geek, and I know some of you are, you take computer hardware or software seriously.
But when we're asked what we do, do you answer with your job or your hobbies? If it's just what you do, and not 'where you work'. Most of the people I've talked to will answer with their job, and I guess that's their public facade. Or maybe they're just really passionate about their work. That's what we're obligated to do, but I think what we choose to devote our time and effort to is more telling.
* So close!
While functionally wasting my time, I contemplated that I've got my time pretty well occupied in general lately. I'm pretty stoked about that, because it also means I'm getting out more which I'm pretty sure I need to do. I spent about 6 months after I started up here a little cooped up, which isn't to say that was bad. I needed my solitude, but whatever. I'm engaged with my hobbies again and spending a lot of effort on them.
One thought lead to another, and I was thinking that taking your hobbies seriously is a good thing. Hobbies are one of our ways of interacting with the world, kind of a specialized way, but something where we select something and get to learn about it. I think people should take the time to figure out what it is that makes things tick, which is one of the reasons why I'm so interested in critical literature theory. Breaking down game systems or observing gamer groups are other parts of this, but I've drawn a pretty narrow focus. Just the other day I wrote a few pages on media tone in American news after the shooting of Dr. Tiller. While it's a morbid subject (I feel that the shooting is a symptom, not a cause, of a violence-promoting media-subset), I wouldn't have spent two hours looking up information, citing it, writing it and posting it if it didn't do something for me. It wasn't fun in the normal way, but essays and writing are passions of mine. If you're a computer geek, and I know some of you are, you take computer hardware or software seriously.
But when we're asked what we do, do you answer with your job or your hobbies? If it's just what you do, and not 'where you work'. Most of the people I've talked to will answer with their job, and I guess that's their public facade. Or maybe they're just really passionate about their work. That's what we're obligated to do, but I think what we choose to devote our time and effort to is more telling.
* So close!
