I just realized that I have the nerdiest hobbies ever.
I'm reading Volume One of the Gormenghast Trilogy, only 543 pages, by Mervyn Peake called
Titus Groan for fun. This ancient book with its torn up spine, frayed navy cloth cover, and oxidized pages was left untouched for eight years in the back of the university's library, and I had claimed it. I must be a nerd to take pride in reading a giant book that has character that can only be acquired by living through 42 years of circulating through at what looks like 35+ anxious readers' hands, homes, and coffee mug stains.
My other hobby, I realized, is responding to foreign YouTubers' requests for translations of song lyrics into their languages. I spent an hour transcribing the song, translating word-by-word, then editing for a sense-by-sense translation, and then fine-tuning my translation to sound like a song or at least rhyme or keep time like the English version...all out of fun. Somebody, please give me a life.
Just now, I realized that I've been messing with photoshop to create new backgrounds for my blog for the past 4 hours. I've even gone so far as to print out the HTML code for the site layout to tinker with it more effectively and learn HTML just for funsies.
This is ridiculous.
It's summer. It's the weekend.
It's break time but my mind just won't turn off.
:(
Comments (1)
at least you're getting things done.