What do you do for fun?

[novelist_wannabe]

I've been pondering this for a while now. No matter what topic comes up here, it is ultimately excoriated and picked apart. I went to see a movie tonight, and I enjoyed it. Coming out I thought, well, this one is probably being administered a death by a thousand paper cuts on the board, but it was exactly the escape I was looking for tonight.

Maybe that's an occupational hazard. Still, after a couple of movie threads it occurred to me that as a group we're so tuned to criticize that we can't enjoy anything. Maybe I'm just reading the wrong threads, but is that true? Are we really a profession of miserable louts? Should Oscar have come out of his trash can wearing a fedora with a press card slipped into the band? Or, do we actually have things in our lives we enjoy?

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Rugby.

 

[dooley_womack1]

We enjoy excoriating and picking apart things.

 

[pallister]

Shut up, dools, you don't know what you're talking about!

 

[Chi City 81]

Re: Who do you do for fun?

My wife.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

We enjoy excoriating and picking apart things.

You were awesome at t-ball, weren't you?

 

[dooley_womack1]

My wife.

Me too.

 

[dooley_womack1]

We enjoy excoriating and picking apart things.

You were awesome at t-ball, weren't you?

With pitchers like you, yes.

And pall, get a shirt on, willya?

 

[Chi City 81]

My wife.

Me too.

Two minutes, 20 seconds. You're slipping.

 

[John]

I enjoy going out for a good meal.

I enjoy sitting outside on a pretty day and reading.

I enjoy traveling, which I'm able to do in my job and during my time off.

I wish I had more things going on that I enjoyed, and more people to do them with, but I'm working on it.

Oh, and I do enjoy my job 80 percent of the time -- which in this day and age, and probably any, is a pretty good percentage.

 

[mike311gd]

Honestly, I don't do anything that's fun, for me. And I really mean that. I enjoy watching old DVDs and reading up on baseball, but I don't consider them fun. All I do is work, sleep and type on this joint, which is a solid way to spend some time (at least I think so), but I wouldn't call it fun.

I used to go to the bars last year, but I don't have many friends here. So I don't go out or have anyone to take to games or concerts or even throw the ball around with, so I sit around the house in my free time. And I left my Super Nintendo back in New York when I was there at the beginning of February.

So, my answer: Nothing.

 

[zeke12]

Mostly I jerk off and then drink until I stop crying.

 

[dooley_womack1]

My wife.

Me too.

Two minutes, 20 seconds. You're slipping.

There were a lot of fronts to approach, couldn't get to them all at once.

 

[pallister]

Two minutes, 20 seconds.

I'd say you're slipping ... oh, you're talking about Dools' reply. Nevermind.

 

[ArnoldBabar]

Novelist, I completely understand where you're coming from. I think this place is a combination of a business and lifestyle that make people cynical, plus that internet dynamic where some people think it's cool to hate everything (I'm looking at you ... ah, never mind).

In real life we don't tend to engage in conversation about things we don't like, but online there are ongoing discussions it's easy to drop into and say something sucks. If a coworker is talking about, say, how much they like Disney stuff, if you hate Disney you're still not likely to say anything. On here you might rip them. So the atmosphere seems super negative.

I like lots of things, and don't give much of a **** whether other people like them too. That's the best plan I know.

 

[forever_town]

Go to a bar near The Big University. Go to karaoke. Watch porn. Rinse. Repeat.

 

[pallister]

In real life we don't tend to engage in conversation about things we don't like

I'd say 9 out of 10 conversations I start in the newsroom are about things I don't like. But outside the newsroom, that rate drops to about 1 in 100.

 

[Chi City 81]

In real life we don't tend to engage in conversation about things we don't like

I'd say 9 out of 10 conversations I start in the newsroom are about things I don't like. But outside the newsroom, that rate drops to about 1 in 100.

Things Pallister Dislikes:

1. Democrats
2. The Cubs
3. The Packers
4. Good beer
5. Real silverware

 

[pallister]

That's a frighteningly accurate list.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Well, I have four fantasy baseball drafts from yesterday thru Monday, and the Tribe opener to attend. I guess baseball's my hobby -- and that goes back to when I was working full-time in the biz.

But I also love the occasional "rock and roll" show.

It took me awhile to adjust to the non-journalism lifestyle. My work schedule and free time were so different than people I knew who weren't in the biz that I mostly hung out with people I worked with. So you end up talking about work so much. Made it kinda hard to find hobbies.