When I'm a Free Man...

I just spent most of this Friday night reading all about economics for my hated masters program. It's amazing how an economics book can make even the most basic theory of supply and demand seem confusing and complex. Fortunately my professor seems like a good egg (despite his stated affinity for the Bare Naked Ladies! Egad.) and I find his lectures to much more easily digestible than this dry text book.

With one year left in the program (god willing) I'm already fantasizing about what I'm going to do with all of my free time. This summer was kind of hard as I was taking two classes and was dumb enough to agree to install an exhibition at work. I feel like I don't ever have free time (on the positive side it's been months since I wasted a night in front of the television). I should think about changing jobs when I graduate, but all I can think about is not what the degree will get me, but how I can't wait to stop working for the damn degree and enjoy my life (my old life, I guess). It seems pretty perverse at times.

Anyway, I intended to blog about what I want to do in my future free time, not question why the hell I'm in the program when I feel like I don't want to be in the field any longer. Soooo... What I miss most is messing around in the kitchen. I did get to make a chocolate ganache cake last week, but for the most part I haven't gotten to try anything new lately. I can't wait to get back at that.

I also look forward to reading for pleasure again. I'm not a real bookworm, I've got a bad habit of buying books that intend to read, but never do. But they sure do look good on the shelves and piled up around the house.

For some reason in the last year I've been really interested in gadgets and making stuff in the basement. Enter Make magazine and Ready Made magazine. I've been buying and reading them over the last year and I can't get enough of them. I have yet to try even one of the projects they write about, even one of the simple ones. But I tell you, when I get the free time I can't wait to make a cat feeder out of an old VCR (yes, I'm serious), or experiment with aerial kite photography. And all of this from a man who has never even held a soldering gun in his hand.