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How Ciro and I spend our free time (such as it is) is something of a mystery to some members of my family, although it looks a lot like how most of my friends spend time. We do write, although we tend to think of this as working. We also read, in a way that is sometimes like killing time and sometimes like relaxing. At other times, we read nonfiction obsessively, because we care a lot about science, politics (which necessarily includes a knowledge of history), and philosophy (including artistic philosophy). We go to a lot of gallery openings, where we spend a lot of time talking about the pieces with each other and with other people. We go to free lectures on subjects that seem interesting. We attend free theater shows and free movies. (Free is big with us, for we are poor.)
We don't spend that much time playing computer games, although at other times, we spend a lot of time playing computer games, in boom and bust cycles. We watch Friday Night Lights on Hulu. On Mondays, we watch bad movies with a rowdy group of gay guys. On Tuesdays, we watch The Biggest Loser with our next door neighbor and try to anticipate commercial breaks and product placement spots. We watch movies when we are not too tired for them.
I tend to cook things that involve chopping a lot of vegetables into very small pieces, and I dislike the sound of food processors and blenders, so that takes time which would otherwise be free.
I like board games and card games much more than Ciro does, but sometimes we play a rummy game about tracking down Jack the Ripper. It's a favorite mostly because one can use outlandish conspiracy theories to try to psych out other players. We have nicknames for all the suspects, some of which are many steps away from the actual name. (Sir Gull -> Sea Gull -> Soap Girl -> Soap Dish. Montague Druit, recently, has been christened Adroit Cricket.) Despite these nicknames, our guesses as to whodunit are more likely to be clever poems about the nature of crime (Ciro) or demands for food items (Romie).
We don't spend that much time playing computer games, although at other times, we spend a lot of time playing computer games, in boom and bust cycles. We watch Friday Night Lights on Hulu. On Mondays, we watch bad movies with a rowdy group of gay guys. On Tuesdays, we watch The Biggest Loser with our next door neighbor and try to anticipate commercial breaks and product placement spots. We watch movies when we are not too tired for them.
I tend to cook things that involve chopping a lot of vegetables into very small pieces, and I dislike the sound of food processors and blenders, so that takes time which would otherwise be free.
I like board games and card games much more than Ciro does, but sometimes we play a rummy game about tracking down Jack the Ripper. It's a favorite mostly because one can use outlandish conspiracy theories to try to psych out other players. We have nicknames for all the suspects, some of which are many steps away from the actual name. (Sir Gull -> Sea Gull -> Soap Girl -> Soap Dish. Montague Druit, recently, has been christened Adroit Cricket.) Despite these nicknames, our guesses as to whodunit are more likely to be clever poems about the nature of crime (Ciro) or demands for food items (Romie).
