Lynn,
I play EverQuest, which is not terribly original, I know, but it does make for an awful good time.
I go to five karate or sword classes a week, three of them outside in a St. Paul winter. I’m selling Girl Scout cookies for my daughter today, and next weekend we’re driving up to Thunder Bay for an SCA event (Bardic Madness). The next weekend is another event, where we’ll learn about life in a Viking Longhouse in winter, and the week after that is a dance seminar in St. Cloud.
That, and I work, run a D&D campaign, and play way too much Diablo II.
You missed a thread that wouldn’t die called “I Love Boobies!” and you’re complaining?!? Holy crap, man (or woman), you have no idea!
But seriously, folks, I also have a life. I spend most of my time on the boards while I am at work, doing a boring, meaningless job. The chatter, info, and entertainment I get from the rest of these Stray Dorkers (thanks, Astroboy) is making my 8 hours go by a lot faster.
Furthermore, I won’t bother to get one unless you can demonstrate that it would preferable to what I have now.
Of course, I don’t watch TV, either. In fact, if I had to choose between life and TV, I’d choose life. It’s not nearly as stupid.
Hehehehehe…
A life? Can I download it?
Yes, I have a life. But I also have a kickin’ computer that downloads most pages in split seconds and no computer at home. Plus, my work is slow enough that I can drag out editing a paper for one day and still get me fill of the Boards.
You need to take a little Straight Dope tour, my friend. We are much more than TV shows and cult movies.
Really, lola, I can’t believe you named your kids Angel and Buffy…
So what do we do? Well, I work when I have clients (video editor for a post-production company in Michigan) and lately it’s been kinda slow around here…hence more time spent at SD. I make as much time as possible for my wife and three boys, keep the house standing on it’s feet as best as possible, and I bowl on Thursday nights. (TMI to follow – 168 average, been improving this year, finally at the point where I can win the occasional jackpot and bring home some extra cash).
At first I thought there were gonna be some flame throwers come out against this OP, but then reading through the thread I’m glad to see it’s turned into a “share something about yourself”…good to learn more about you all than the sparse info in your profiles.
If you couldn’t tell, triech, I’m a newbie, too…considered giving up my addiction to SDMB for lent, but as you can see I’m not doing a very good job with that.:rolleyes:
triech, I noticed your bio says “Interests: anything I haven’t done before”. I don’t suppose you caught last night’s episode of “Ed” on NBC where Kevin Pollak plays a meek guy who has a near-death experience and then goes out to change his life by doing everything he can possibly imagine, like scaling buildings and bowling naked, and then goes on to write a book called Do Everything before riding off into the sunset to discover the world…no, I guess you probably didn’t see that one…oh, well 
Paul
Yes, I have a life!
Due to inservice, I didn’t have regular classes today. I slept in late due to working on an art project all night. But I did go to a pottery class and finished a project and started 2 more. Then I put finishing touches on an installation peice I have at a gallery, then I opened the show and talked art and won the peoples choice award for my project. No TV, and I’m only here to unwind really, since I have to sleep so that I can work on physics tomorrow and do some maintenance at my office building.
I have a life and it’s on th SDMB. Yeah I’m an addict so what? My girlfriend has to pull me away sometimes just to pay attention to here. Okay not really she’d kick my ass if I spent my free time on the computer. I usually spend my time at work reading/posting which equals rouhgly 4hrs a night but over the summer it’ll be 8hrs a day on the boards (working 40hrs a week finally). But I do sneak on here when she is at class but don’t tell her!
And as for TV I don’t watch it but rarely maybe once a week (until baseball season starts that is). I just find everything on TV nowadays to be crap. Give me back my Fragglerock, Smurfs, and Webster and I’ll happily watch TV again.
Let’s see, my day…
I slept late, after watching PBS last night (2 great shows by the way…anti-angioinhibitor drugs for cancer, they are now testing thalidomide for this, with surprising results, and Frontline’s “Coolhunters” made me so happy we have teenaged “stray dorkers”!) yet still got the boy to school on time. Did some laundry, fed the dog. Consoled a cranky toddler, then figured out she has an ear infection, so I hauled her to the doctor’s office. Had a little chat with the pediatrician and hopefully taught her a little bit about autism. Got two much needed referrals for yet more specialists for her, along with the chicken pox vaccine and a prescription for said ear infection. Took kid to drugstore and got kiddie dope and found another Barbie for the collection I still claim is for HER, though hubby’s not buying that anymore. Picked up older kid from the bus, medicated screaming toddler, made dinner and still watched Survivor. Put the kids to bed, complete with a reading of One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. Drank two beers, cuddled the hubby and came here to unwind.
Nice relaxing day off work for me 
Well, I’m a university student, majoring in film production. You’d be inclined to think that because of that, I watch a lot of movies. Well, I do, but not a whole heck of a lot more than most. I really don’t have the time for much stuff outside of school (I also work part-time). There are different things that I enjoy doing and help me unwind. Things like going out with friends and playing my bass. This is another one of those things. The SDMB is fun, informative, and I’ve made some good friends here.
Today I finished up an assignment for a class and then had to drop off equipment that I had booked out to finish said assignment. Then I went to the dean’s honour roll lunch (one of the best meals I get all semester). I had a little break and then a 3 hour class. This has actually been my least-busy day in a couple of weeks. I even had some time to just relax and play my bass.
Hmm.
I went to the dentist the other day, and the cute dental nurse I like pretty much brushed me off.
I look after a porn website, and it’s getting duller by the day to do these updates.
Um.
At my job, it is so slow that I think I may end up losing one of the three days of the week that I work there.
Er.
My friend’s movie is making very slow progress, and I’m not sure if it’ll ever get off the ground properly.
See, this is all dull stuff - that’s what constitutes a life, a bunch of dull stuff glued together with a thin swirly thread of cool geeky stuff that gives you a buzz.
So what do you expect folk to share with their friends? The dull stuff, or the cool stuff?
I rest my case.
I sure as hell don’t
Life? Welll, my life consists of getting up in the morning, going to school, then going to a cakewalk job where i have absolutely no supervision, pull my pud all day and roam the boards. I’m kind of new here too, I used to come here a couple years ago, and I found myself bored a couple of weeks ago, came back for a visit, and here I am. I don’t really have time at home for the computer though, my two boys are on it all night, plus my girlfriend kicks my ass when i neglect her to be on the computer, because i usually end up being on it for extended periods of time. i have to say my life is full. No desire to watch Buffy, The Mole, or Survivor. I like the Discovery Channel.
Hey! I posted a Shakespeare sonnet in MPSIMS today.
Also I took a walk around the block this morning to smell the fresh Southern California air.
Um, as to the OP.
If you really think this board is just about lame (or not so lame, depending on who you talk to) TV shows, you are obviously visiting a different board than I am.
Scotti:confused:
Whenever someone makes a statement along the lines of “get a life” on message boards or in chat rooms, I tend to think the underlying statement is either “have interests like mine”, or more likely “good golly, but don’t I feel superior to y’all”. What exactly does it mean to have a life? Does the one posing the question live in some kind of James Bond existence? Do they wake up every morning into a world where every thought and utterance is profound or witty or profoundly witty? Write the great american novel before breakfast, and paint a reproduction of the Sistine Chapel on the ceiling of the car (a sporty expensive car to be sure) as they wend their way at high speed towards their oh so glamourous work which is vital in some deep way to the betterment of the world? A job which isn’t needed of course because money shoots out of their rose-scented butt or they inherited a sum equivalent to the GNP of smaller, yet romantically stylish, emergent nations. And the nights? Oh, don’t get me started on the nights! Perpetual deep blue twilight glow fantasies in which they mix with people smart enough that they belong to the exclusive club which only accepts the top 1 percent of Mensa members, and have stunning social skills to boot. And did I mention that these people are beautiful and heart-breakingly so? After hours of intense riveting conversation puncuated by paroxysms of laughter, they pair up and join in the most mind bending sex and/or lovemaking of a quality which shames Tantric masters and results in double-digit multiple orgasms after which their eyes lock in a Vulcan mindmeld in which volumes of unspoken yet fully realized poignancy is spoken. Birth control? No way! Their bodies, to which they are attuned to at a frequency only experienced by the highest of Tibetan monks, acts directly only on the mind’s wishes, and if pregnancy is not desired, then the sperm will avoid the kevlar clad ovum, swimming instead in a synchronised ballet besides which those poseurs in the Olympics pale. And if offspring is desired, then one try will suffice while accompaniment of a thousand piece orchestra rises and wanes in rythmic counterpart. Pussy-farts while this lovemaking occurs? Not in this glorious life bucko! This is a world in which toilet paper and nosehairs don’t exist, because there is no need for these things.
Then again, I do like going outside sometimes. It has really good graphics.
I have no life. I haven’t had a life for a long, long, long time.
In fact, outside of this dingy CPU, there’s not much to tell - work’s about as horrible an experience as I’ve had, but since I put myself there, I can’t complain much. (Was so bad this week I spent about 45 mins this morning writing pages and pages of thoughts about how screwed up it is!)
And besides, so many other people have far worse lives, and not of their own doing…
BTW, BunnyGirl…
Can I put that in my sig?
Another great sig line, crying out to be used! Actually that whole post was flat-out hilarious, Purd.
I have a life, but it’s too demanding, people-packed and busy usually. I don’t watch TV; do read a lot but this place is addictive. This is my down time, where I can be myself and speak my mind. I have to read everything in IMHO, and try to read as much as possible in other fora. But by and large it’s a blast.
Interesting folks here, with interesting thoughts. And a lot of 'em are wittier and funnier than hell, btw. Frankly the concentration of “good company” is a lot better here than in a lot of real life groups I’ve been in.
Veb
I took my son to the Megamall on Tuesday. First, we went to Underwater World. We walked through, and under, tanks full of freshwater and saltwater fish. Then we went on the Mystery Mine Ride–you know, the thing where the seats move around according to what you’re watching? After that, we went to the arcade and played all sorts of games and stuff.
I must confess, though, that I recently called my cable company and had them reconnect me to HBO so I can watch The Sopranos.