Just Wondering

[ladysprite]

What do people without hobbies do? I know they exist; as far as I can tell in just about any workplace the vast majority of the people there just don't have any real interests or activities they participate in outside of their job. So.... what do they do with their time?

I've got a half-day today. I spent the morning shopping for ingredients for recipes to try at this weekend's SCA Cook's Guild meeting and starting preparatory cooking for that; while the eggs were boiling I worked on translating the next part of a period Italian cookbook. Now I'm going to work on writing up part of a period dance manual; if that gets boring I have a shawl I'm crocheting that I can work on. Tonight I'm having friends over for a gaming session. Last night was dance practice, this weekend is Cook's Guild, the weekend after that is a gaming convention.

If I didn't have any outside interests, I think I'd end up just growing into the sofa. I can't fathom that lifestyle.

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[mindways]

*nod* I'd mentally lumped housework in with siderea's "Nest. (Work on their homes.)" category; I should have said so explicitly.

(It may also worth noting that "4 hours spent watching TV" doesn't necessarily translate to "4 hours spent doing nothing else" - I know some people watch TV while (say) doing the dishes. Or stuff like knitting, but that gets back into the "hobbies" realm.)