I Collect Hobbies
Jeffrey Veen recently published a post called What’s In Your Folder of Shame?, inviting his readers to share the titles of blog entries that have not been published and are instead accumulating dust. Apparently, I am really good at writing one or two sentences for a concept of an entry, but it seems rare that I flesh out something that I feel is publish-worthy. That’s why this week I’ve been trying my dig-dang-diddly-darndest to publish at least a little nugget for you every day. Yes, all four of you.
In the spirit of the folder of shame, I would like to share my shameful list of hobbies that I continuously collect, with the goal of one day dedicating enough time to them. In the meantime I bounce from one to the other, giving each only enough attention to get its hopes up, then I toss it aside like a crummy velveteen rabbit:
- Become fluent in Spanish and Italian
- Drums, guitar, and piano
- Watercolors and oil painting
- Learn electronics
- Build a robot
- Everything computer-related
- Knitting
- Drawing
- Video editing
- Animation
- All types of biking
- Video games
I’m sure I will continue to add to this list as more things pop into my mind and as I accumulate more hobbies. What’s on your list o’ hobbies?
December 22nd, 2005 at 2:47 pm
I have often thought of creating a seperate blog to document all of the things that I start to do but never finish.
I guess it would also include the things that I did finish just to remind me how much I go through just to generate a mediocre project.
Off of the top of my head it would include…
Dreadlocks
MTB Skills course
Inline Street skating
Bathroom renovations
Several websites
Maybe the key is to form some sort of co-op. Find others that want to do what you want to do and force each other to do them.
On that note, I could help you out with the electronics and the video editing.
December 22nd, 2005 at 9:08 pm
Don’t get me started on a folder of shame. I think mine is big enough to call it my entire hard drive of shame…not just one folder :)