Too Many Hobbies, Not Enough Time

Too Many Hobbies, Not Enough Time

I’ve got a stack of cover CDs on my desk that I haven’t browsed. They arrive one by one with each issue of a couple of magazines to which I subscribe—3D World and Computer Arts.

There was a time I would pop these CDs in as soon as I got them, install whatever free applications were burned onto them, and experiment. Since I’ve started “blogging” regularly, though, I haven’t really had a chance to play with new software. Next month will see a change, I hope. I’ve been itching to create new art big enough to make posters—in both 2D and 3D.

I have a list of images that I want to make, a product of my scribbling whenever an idea came to me. I also have a rather large collection of works in progress—both words and images—on my hard drive, discovered when I did my little bit of “housekeeping” on the computer not too long ago. I doubt that I will ever get to them all, but I want to make a serious attempt at completing them when I get the chance.

…which probably means I’ll need to post to this online journal less frequently after this month because something has to give.

*Sigh*

Growing up, I always wanted to do and to be everything. I wanted to be an actress, a singer, an artist, a writer… I wanted to do it all. What a shame that my body needs sleep every now and then. If I were a Sleepless, like in Beggars in Spain, I’d have more time in day to do whatever I wanted.

For now, though… I have too many hobbies and not enough time.

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5 thoughts on “Too Many Hobbies, Not Enough Time”

  1. Amen to that! Each of us carries so many roles in our life, how do we fit all of them in?? For me it would be writer, photographer, musician, and Mac-Geek. So, my free moments are a big question mark. Do I pick up my bass? Do I process some film? Do I hone my less than mad Photoshop Skillz? Do I blog? Or, God forbid, do I sleep?…. I digress.

  2. Amen to that! Each of us carries so many roles in our life, how do we fit all of them in?? For me it would be writer, photographer, musician, and Mac-Geek. So, my free moments are a big question mark. Do I pick up my bass? Do I process some film? Do I hone my less than mad Photoshop Skillz? Do I blog? Or, God forbid, do I sleep?…. I digress.

  3. You liked ‘Beggars in Spain’? Well, I guess a few people did since she did all those sequels… :-O

    Oh yeah, the big art…you’ll probably want to get a big printer that costs as much as small car manufactured in South Korea. I guess making art can be pretty expensive… eh?

  4. Why does that sound familiar?

    It’s a little scary when you begin to realize that your "must get around to" list at home is larger than your "to be completed" list at work.

  5. Broch, exactly! If we all didn’t have to sleep, we’d have more time to do all the things we like to do. Never mind that I absolutely love to sleep.

    Paralaxe, Beggars in Spain was okay, if I remember. I didn’t know until today that there were sequels to it. I somehow fell into reading it because I used to read all of Nancy Kress’ Writer’s Digest articles, which were really helpful in my own writing, and when I saw the book title in her byline, I figured I’d give it a try. Why, have you read it?

    Saen, lol. That’s actually never scary for me. I would rather spend all of my effort and energy in my personal endeavors than in my "career," so my list at home is always larger than my list at work. That is not to say I’m a lazy worker; I’m usually very efficient and productive. I just have a lot more enthusiasm for doing work that benefits me than for doing work that benefits some CEO.

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