What do you do in your free time?

[Shamisen]

I usually surf the internet for reading material - whatever Im interested in at the moment. For one month I was obsessed with BACH and his fugues, and after that I researched the origins of the hampster dance and other viral pop culture.
Sometimes I study Japanese. Sometimes I write emails.

HOW ABOUT YOU!

[pakalikaPakalika]

wish i could check facebook, but my copmputer bansbe from checking pretty much anything. other then that i play in the forum, reading every new post and playing a game here and there and i check sports news. other wise i try to go to P.E. class when i can. I like sports.

[Richard_BenoitEnglipedia Drone]

On the net:

-Forums

-Daily newspapers: Japan Today, NYTimes, Guardian, Haaretz, Al Jazeera, Der Spiegel, Le Monde (in french, as I desperately need to keep practicing)

-Dictionary.com flash cards (new vocab) or random words I am not completely clear on how to explain. Plus their fun daily facts.

- Wiki: daily historical facts, and anything else I need more info about.

Off the net:

-drawing, sometimes with the art club

-sweep the hallways

-walk around and bug the kids when they are in the halls

-study Japanese

[Paul]

Drink beer, smoke cigar's or cigarette's, people watch, fart, pick my nose and flick the booger's all over the place, drink some more.........

[moolooman]

Wont have to worry about what to do in my free time tomorrow. I have classes in periods 1,2,3,4,5. What a pain in the ass.

[Paul]

Wont have to worry about what to do in my free time tomorrow. I have classes in periods 1,2,3,4,5. What a pain in the ass.

Oh free-time at school/work..........

[Richard_BenoitEnglipedia Drone]

Oh free-time at school/work

I thought you already knew the question but you were just a bad ass, and did all this stuff at work anyway!

Drink beer, smoke cigar's or cigarette's, people watch, fart, pick my nose and flick the booger's all over the place, drink some more.........

I would pay to see an AET do this, as I watch through a hidden camera like some crazy variety program!

[Otaku]

I have decided to read as much of the entire works of Shakespeare over the next two days of nothing to do, starting with Hamlet.

[Paul]

I have decided to..............damn, download movies maybe?

[moolooman]

I have flagged reading Shakespeare, as my brain has partially atrophied and can`t fully comprehend the language, and have turned to Orwell`s 1984.
Any other good online reading suggestions?

[Paul]

as my brain has partially atrophied and can`t fully comprehend the language,

How about this....Try this for atrophied brains

[moolooman]

WTF?

[moolooman]

[Paul]

WTF?

Well I figured if your brain was atrophied then might as well go the whole 9 yards and fry it out with some brain numbing entertainment from everyone's friend from the bottom of the sea.

[moolooman]

When I have free time in the summer up there I will bust out the mini Weber and have a bbq I suspect. I`d invite Otaku but it is too far away, and all he ever seems to do is get a fired up a a bbq when you talk about them.

[hokkaido1]

eat a marmite sandwich (LOL)

watch HD movies on my HD TV etc etc

[Paul]

Right now I'm going nostalgic and watching the Blade movies again.

[sonofobed]

I have flagged reading Shakespeare, as my brain has partially atrophied and can`t fully comprehend the language, and have turned to Orwell`s 1984.
Any other good online reading suggestions?

not sure how online these are but;

Catch-22
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Ender's Game
Fahrenheit 451
I, Robot (Way, way better than the movie)


(If you want some awesome fantasy series)
Wheel of Time (Very, very long series, like 10-plus books long)
Deathgate Series

[moolooman]

Love Hitchhikers. Will look at the rest. Cheers.

[Shamisen]

By the by... the topic was meant to be "What do you do in your free time AT WORK" so BBQs dont count.

Ender's Game? One of the BEST sci fi Ive ever read!
And thumbs up to everyone who likes Hitchhikers guide!
It is online,( the entire book ) in text version.
http://www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/~mdobruck/hhg/HITCH1.TXT

Except you have to change the hgg to hgg2 (something about copyrights)

Another suggestion to bored ppls who like sci fi - The metamorphasis of prime intellect. I think thats what it was called... That was also online in text form a while back. Its a bit sickening in parts, but the overall storyline is damn amazing. http://www.kuro5hin.org/prime-intellect/

What do I do in my free time? plan my non-ALT life, I used to study Japanese, now Im writing a book.

[moolooman]

Magnificent. I will begin reading HHGTTG for the nth time.

[jessen100]

draw all sorts of pictures and act as if im going to use them for elementary school class. then just use some of them. working on an A-Z animal series atm. i think im in trouble when i get to x.

[moolooman]

http://list17.blogspot.com/2010/05/17-animals-that-start-with-x.html

Or the Xenicidae which is native to NZ. (which I didn`t know)

[sonofobed]

draw all sorts of pictures and act as if im going to use them for elementary school class. then just use some of them. working on an A-Z animal series atm. i think im in trouble when i get to x.

You should tell them about Xenu and how he came to Earth in DC-10s.

[moolooman]

There is a dinosaur with the super cool name of Xinjiangovenator

[moolooman]

draw all sorts of pictures and act as if im going to use them for elementary school class. then just use some of them. working on an A-Z animal series atm. i think im in trouble when i get to x.

You should tell them about Xenu and how he came to Earth in DC-10s.

I am reading about Xenu now. That is some kind of crazy those Scientologists are believing. Respectfully speaking if there are any Scientologists in this forum.

[jessen100]

i could make xenu in the form of a Xenicidae of course.

[Richard_BenoitEnglipedia Drone]

Being based on science, xenu and scientology are 100 percent believable. How can you disprove it ...eh ? Eh?

But seriously I might believe that before I believe other religions. If not for pure entertainment, read up on it! Still won't explain why Tom thought it was cool to jump on Oprah's couch though.

[SirDickusBacillus]

in my free time i play Paper Food Parade!

This is where i build little cuisine dishes out of paper and tape them all to a string. I then pull them around the desk while singing the Mighty Mouse theme. Its good fun.

[Richard_BenoitEnglipedia Drone]

wait mooloo, you do that mexican chick in your free time?