I forgot to mention blogging. Once again, that is a habit engrained in everyday life and in my work, so I don't consider it a hobby, but maybe it is.
I don't have watching sports as a main hobby. I will watch, if something happens to be on, but I don't follow sports very much. I used to follow tennis. We've (my friend and I) lost some of our interest in KU sports. A guy just gave the athletic dept. 300 million, which would pay for 3,000 professors. I object, in principle, to having any interest now in sports at my university.
Novel reading is a hobby I used to have but don't. I will read a novel if there is a reason to, but I find working myself through a middle brow novel kind of a torture. When I do read a novel, I sometimes develop my intelligence and knowledge in wonderful ways. I tend to need to read novels in languages I don't know completely, so that I can exercise my brain in other ways, by trying to figure out what is happening. When I read Japanese novels in Catalan, though, I understand too much, so the process gets tiresome. It takes more words to say "he nodded" in Catalan: "va fer si amp el cap." Try reading that phrase hundreds of times in a long novel.
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