Hobbies (Part 1 of 2)

Sometimes I feel like taking an interest in too many hobbies  prevents me from focusing and excelling in each one. I want to do so much but I never seem to find the time.

First off, I have the sewing hobby--something I really need more practice on. I'm a perfectionist when it comes to the arts and right now it's definitely nowhere near acceptable in my personal standards. I bought some new fabrics and I really want to make something soon but I've been putting that off. I really need some inspiration.

I also was recently reminded of my love of drawing too. I'm not good at it, actually I'm terribly sub-par, but I really enjoy it so I wanted to start it up again. It takes a lot of practice to capture facial/body emotions and the still-action of a picture so I want to make some time to start drawing cartoons again. I also brought up my watercolors from home so that I can try out this new type of art. Again, I haven't gotten around to even opening the box or making a single drawing...

Photography is a brand new thing. Ever since I started using tumblr, I've been so impressed by the photography that people post up. I really wanted to get a dslr for myself and start taking pictures of everything! I have all these images in my head that I'd like to capture with a camera but it takes money to buy the equipment to capture images the way I want it too. I've been borrowing Brian's DSLR and taking pictures all over Rochester. It's been super fun but I am still extremely noob so I hope to learn more about it and take better pictures! Sadly, I can't invest in a DSLR until after the driving lessons...drivers license...car...then DSLR haha.

My all-time favorite hobby: reading. There are so many books I bought over summer but I haven't even touched yet.  I never buy books because I'm cheap but I don't know where the library is LOL Rush Rhees doesn't have much pleasure reading books. I tend to start books and leave them half way when I lose free time--so I have a lot of outstanding books. The awful part is that I always have to start from the beginning if it's been a while because I need to refresh my memory. I always read books when I'm sitting idly on a bus or train, which is how I get much of my reading done in NYC. But in Rochester, there's not much idle time so I can't sit down on my bed and just read. I'm too restless. I started the Asian American Dreams after I graduated and went home but only got halfway through before I went back to Rochester. Then I stopped reading it. When I went back down to NYC again for my birthday, I started reading Landburg's More Sex is Safer Sex...when I got back to Rochester, again I couldn't find time for it. So those two books are currently sitting sadly on my desk, collecting dust. Sadface.

Okay fine, I do have time, during evenings and weekends. But I fill that up with hanging out and going places--so there's never enough down time to just sit and do all of this stuff. I always tend to feel a bit guilty after going out because I never get any of this stuff done and it's just sitting in the back burner. Unfortunately all of the activities I listed above tend to occur in solitude and like I said, I'm too restless--I can't just do this alone and in silence. I like to move around, be around people, be super active. Help!