Hungry for Novelty
I opened yesterday’s entry with the news that I’d bought some new stuff. I don’t spend much money. I’m miserly by nature, and I find I don’t much want most of the stuff money can buy, so three purchases in a day is an oddity. Also oddly, I got chatty about them…or at least about the book and magazine, since the computer game isn’t up and running yet. I’ve been thinking about it, and realize both uncharacteristic behaviors have a common driving force behind them: the book is done.
As the end of this too-long and too-slow project arrived, Eileene asked me the natural question: “So what are you going to do next?” I don’t know. Worse, I can’t immediately think of anything I’d be interested in doing. I’ve focused on the book so long, reading almost nothing but folk tales for a couple years. Freed from a sense of obligation to keep reading more folk tales, I’m suddenly hungry for new ideas, new books, new shows, new hobbies.
It’s distressing to discover how few new things I’ve touched lately. Between housework, writing, and staying active in a WoW guild, there wasn’t any other free time, and of those three activities, only the last involved any novelty. Even WoW has been getting stale lately, which no doubt contributed to my decision to stop playing and find something else to play. I want my evenings free for something else, anything else.
Well, spring is on the way, and we needn’t stay cooped up in the apartment all the time. Maybe I’ll surprise Eileene by finding date ideas on my own. If she didn’t read that last sentence.