How Do You Spend a Work-Free Day?

[munky99999]

Well i was going to make a poll. But the options are rather unique. So how about just posting about how you like to spend spare time(holidays or weekends...etc).

Im talking time which your expected to do no work at all. Like you have the whole day off. What do you like to do.

Well ill start off with me.

If i have say a whole day off. There are a number of different things i tend to do. Sometimes I watch Seasons of tv shows. X-files atm. I also like to play video games. Battlefield 2 in particular. I also look at the Canadian political news, http://www.ananova.com/news/lp.html?keywords=Quirkies" and latest science related news. I often read books also. Currently I am reading "The end of Faith" by Sam Harris.

Well that's briefly what i would do with my spare time.
How about you?

 

[franznietzsche]

Well i was going to make a poll. But the options are rather unique. So how about just posting about how you like to spend spare time(holidays or weekends...etc).

Im talking time which your expected to do no work at all. Like you have the whole day off. What do you like to do.

Well ill start off with me.

If i have say a whole day off. There are a number of different things i tend to do. Sometimes I watch Seasons of tv shows. X-files atm. I also like to play video games. Battlefield 2 in particular. I also look at the Canadian political news, http://www.ananova.com/news/lp.html?keywords=Quirkies" and latest science related news. I often read books also. Currently I am reading "The end of Faith" by Sam Harris.

Well that's briefly what i would do with my spare time.
How about you?

I'm going to break the rules of this right off the bat, because I like working.

So I spend my free time http://arxiv.org" (incidently that site is way out of date and I don't think our current SPS people even know it exists). And sometimes I go to the beach. I like the beach. Its nice. Otherwise, I work. I like work. Its nice.

 

[Cyrus]

Go for a drive downtown and enjoy the city.

 

[fargoth]

hmm... that really depends if I am th only one with a break... id rather go out with friends to the beach\mall\movies\net-playing

but if I am the only one who has the extra time (like it usually is)
i'll read a book, look for interesting news (newspaper, www.tomshardware.com , ign.com.. and some more..)
then i'll see if there's something interesting on the history channel or national geographic.
i'll probably have time to have a look here too
and play some computer game (if this spare time sould show up in a month the game will probably be TES: oblivion)

oh, and ofcourse, going to the gym if its an odd day.

but if i had more then one day, i would probably use it for a hike, or go to visit friends who live far away.

 

[scorpa]

What spare time!? lol

In my spare time I ride dirtbikes, play bball or whatever else I feel like at the time, play guitar...good stuff like that.

 

[fourier jr]

read Canadian history, read math/science 'non-textbooks', do math, talk on msn messenger, study baking & cooking books, shop for cds & more books, wander around downtown, watch dvds... this summer I'm thinking of going on a couple road trips, camping & ...probably some other stuff as well that i can't think of

 

[Dawguard]

I mostly read. Right now I'm reading Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, and a collection of works by Kant.

 

[munky99999]

but if I am the only one who has the extra time (like it usually is)

same here. all my friends have 1-2 jobs + school and study. there is no chance of anything social. my sisters who are like grade 9-10 don't understand this and think that I am anti-social loser.

as for newspaper. my dad ordered the newspaper for the whole winter. something like 4 months. he payed in full for the 4 months. when 4 months ended he was going back to work. but after 4 months were up. the newspaper guy kept delivering for the longest time. now the newspaper wants money for the newspapers that were delivered by accident. which is stupid. they should be taking that money out of the deliverer. so unless we pay this stupid money. they won't deliver the paper.

hiking sounds fun. but there really isn't anything to hike or camp around my area.

 

[Bladibla]

Working, playing Doom, or playing ikaruga.

Sometimes go to theatres and royal Albert hall.

 

[scott1]

I just work on these physics equations on my breaks at the Patent Office.I won't ever win a nobel prize or anything with them,it's just somthing I do for fun.

 

[Astronuc]

What spare time!? lol

Yeah, what spare time? Spare time is when I sleep between 0200 and 0400.

 

[LeBrad]

I play foosball.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I just work on these physics equations on my breaks at the Patent Office.I won't ever win a nobel prize or anything with them,it's just somthing I do for fun.

What do you do at the patent office?

 

[z-component]

What do you do at the patent office?

He's a patent clerk of course!

I find myself reading Wikipedia a lot during my free time. It's so addicting! During the weekdays, it's usually schoolwork that takes up most of my time, but on the weekends, I find myself going out a lot recently with friends. And no, I don't go to bars...

 

[Gale]

guitar and instant messengers mostly. if i have the whole day off, no strings attached, (ie no work i could possibly do) and if I'm already well rested, i love to hike and camp a lot. i don't have any friends who're into it though, so i have to really be in the mood for some alone time. usually i'll bring a book along, and find a nice place to sit and read and eat some lunch or dinner. i like to bring a notebook too in case i feel like drawing or writing anything.

if i just have a small break in the day and its nice out, i hacky sack! god i can't wait for it to be warm enough without snow melt everywhere so that i can hack again.

 

[silkworm]

Hello forum.

Actually what my dream is to do while I'm not working is to hang out in my living room and talk about nature. I'm obsessed.

I'm a chemistry and physics double major and I'm happy to have found this forum.

 

[selfAdjoint]

There's life beyond PF?

 

[scott1]

What do you do at the patent office?

It was a joke
I thought you would see the comparsion with this guy

On May 14, 1904, the couple's first son, Hans Albert Einstein, was born. In 1903, Einstein's position at the Swiss Patent Office had been made permanent, though he was passed over for promotion until he had "fully mastered machine technology".8 He obtained his doctorate after submitting his thesis "A new determination of molecular dimensions" ("Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen") in 1905.

 

[zoobyshoe]

There's life beyond PF?

No, just a lot of unsubstantiated rumors.

 

[zoobyshoe]

It was a joke
I thought you would see the comparsion with this guy

Hans?His name was really Hans?[/size]

 

[scott1]

Hans?His name was really Hans?[/size]

No that was his sons name.

 

[zoobyshoe]

No that was his sons name.

Who's son's name?

 

[scott1]

Who's son's name?

Albert Einstien!

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Reading, shooting billiards, drinking... yeah that's about it lately.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Albert Einstien!

Who's Albert Einstie[/color]n?

 

[Jonny_trigonometry]

I like to lay down and take a nap. I'll spend time with friends who also got nothing to do, but if nobody can, or if I don't want to hang out, I play guitar or bass, or read something or play a video game or try to entertain ongoing ideas/projects in theoretical physics that I understand, or just sit still in a trance. Sometimes I go a week without playing bass and sometimes I play for 4-6 hours straight when I'm really into it, and don't have anything else to do. I've been getting into snowboarding lately, and I plan on going next week. Oh yeah, sometimes I'll attend a poker game at a friend's apartment who always has them.

 

[Moonbear]

Well i was going to make a poll. But the options are rather unique. So how about just posting about how you like to spend spare time(holidays or weekends...etc).

Im talking time which your expected to do no work at all. Like you have the whole day off. What do you like to do.

Spare time? Days off? Time when you're expected to do no work at all? *scratches head* I have this vague recollection of days like that, but it feels like it was so long ago, maybe it was just a dream.

 

[Evo]

Spare time? You mean that instant between turning off the light and lying down in bed?

 

[munky99999]

Spare time? You mean that instant between turning off the light and lying down in bed?

heh. man must suck having no time to do things of interest. One reason why i never was into business. you basically have no time for yourself. which is the point of working all the time.

-Get job so that you buy that new computer or tv system.
-job takes all ur time.
-never actually use that new computer or entertainment system.

 

[honestrosewater]

I beat up the fecund foosball nerds and find that English doesn't have more infixes absofecundlutely unfecundbelievable!

 

[LeBrad]

I beat up the fecund foosball nerds

Bring it girl!

Too bad you'll catch me though, because, due to my foosball playing, my door opening ability is second to none!

 

[honestrosewater]

Too bad you'll catch me though,

Wow, your cunning linguist skills are prostrating.

because, due to my foosball playing, my door opening ability is second to none!

Due to your foosball playing, I'm sure.

 

[LeBrad]

Wow, your cunning linguist skills are prostrating.
Due to your foosball playing, I'm sure.

My door opening skills have increased, but my typing skills have suffered from it.

 

[honestrosewater]

My door opening skills have increased, but my typing skills have suffered from it.

You should take up puppeteering then. You have a behind-the-scenes kind of face anyway.

 

[LeBrad]

You should take up puppeteering then. You have a behind-the-scenes kind of face anyway.

You are mean.

 

[Leah]

Well, I have a lot of time on my hands. It's very relaxing. I watch t.v and sleep.

 

[Jonny_trigonometry]

I've got a pet cat named Logan. Sometimes I wish I were him.

 

[honestrosewater]

You are mean.

If you're trying to make me feel bad, it won't work. I was only joking. You have a lovely countenance. If I wanted to be mean, I would have made fun of your name. I would have been like "LeBrad? What is that about?" and John Lynch would have been like "Yeah, I would so clobber that guy" and LeBron James would have been like "Who am I? Some kind of basketball player, right? I hope he isn't trying to be like me cause basketball is even more boring than foosball" and Pepé Le Pew would have been like "LeBrad has a countenance lovely, no?" Okay? You win. I'm sorry. I am not mean!

 

[loseyourname]

Some of you guys are such cogs. I've got plenty of free time, and I do what humans were meant to do: eat, screw, forage, and rest. I've gotten into skincare lately, too. Maybe someday I'll be a dermatologist. Or a bomber pilot.

 

[franznietzsche]

Get back to work, all of you. Note to self: Back to work!

 

[scott_alexsk]

I rant in my free time, ineffectively summarizing anything I learned.
-Scott