Recently I tried to write a short description of what I spend my time doing (along with a reverse-chronological list of employers if you get my drift), and I found it really hard.
Sure, the standard tick list of cinema / reading (although recently someone asked me “do you read?”, at which I laughed, but to be honest there aren’t many people I know who do read on a regular basis) / art / theatre, opera and dance (which just affirms my middle class providence with a hint of fruit), but, hell, what do people do these days? Sport is an option for some, but watching rather than doing smacks of dressing up tv watching.
How do I describe the things I’m interested in? Walking – but not in a straight line and not anywhere particularly beautiful, cartography, psychogeography, dabble in programming, and this Internet thing. I get the feeling that previously some of these hobbies would be taken as noble pursuits, but amateur science, and a search for knowledge, isn’t taken seriously in culture today. This is also coupled with the fact that professionals, rightly or wrongly, tend to decry or pooh-pooh amateurs taking an interest in their field of expertise.
So, how do you describe things like “the Internet”? How do you describe interests in things outside your mindset?
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