Now that you've finished school, do you have any intellectual pursuits?

I downloaded Spanish lessons. The lessons are audio but there’s no translation! So I could say lots of words, like a parrot, but I wouldn’t understand!

I keep up with things in nursing. I like learning new techniques and learning more about medicine so I’m better at taking care of my patients.

I also have the Rosetta Stone Spanish CD, I just haven’t put much time into it lately.

I like to steal cars. It is particularly challenging now with the new lock systems.

Right now, I am learning a few new tricks in a machine shop.

But of course! I visit Fluther!

Oh, and I do a ton more unassigned reading than I did when the professors were doling out what to study. I am gathering all the information I can about Cosmology, the operation of the human mins (and other intelligent animals minds) and the arrow of time.

I will never be done learning. I’m still an undergraduate, but I have every intention of obtaining my masters and P.h.d. But I won’t cease studying after obtaining pieces of paper. There’s so much I want to learn. I don’t need to be at an institution to press forward.

I have always wanted to be able to draw and sing and play guitar!.... I can play guitar but I can’t sing! Maybe I can jam and draw….never tried that!! XD

All sorts of them! Right now, I am studying the truffles of the Pacific Northwest in preparation for a truffle hunting trip next month. I’ve added words like “gleba” and “perideum” to my vocabulary, and expanded my knowledge of fungal taxonomy.

US history and art history, mostly.

Life is for learning, I think. I visit fluther and learn new things all the time, I have a french language course upstairs but haven’t given it the time I intended yet (it’s on my “to do” list) I love finding new recipes to try and adore bringing home those free catalogues you find in home furnishing stores like Ikea, John Lewis, Argos etc, finding a look I really like and trying to re-create it on a budget, ie: making my own curtains etc. Love it love it love it :-) This is a great question honey
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I constantly read, more now than I ever did in school. Often several books a week.

I often read stuff about Anthropology, and that is what I got my BA in. I also read a ton of political works, and tons about practical, every day skills, and lots about deep ecology. I’ve recently gotten back into reading fiction, and I’m working my way through Terry Pratchett’s “Discworld” series.

I also attend a reading discussion group focused on deeply critical and nuanced political literature, and run a group that facilitates researching and learning traditional subsistence and “Stone Age” technological skills, among other things.

@incendiary_dan What an interesting and eclectic list. It might sound odd to study Stone Age technology, but less than one day stranded alone in the wilderness would convince most people that would have been a worthwhile topic to learn.

@ETpro Well, I AM also a wilderness skills instructor, and but the interest in the technology came first (and got me the job). Mostly, people don’t understand how amazingly complex, as well as supremely useful, the technology can be. I tend not to use the term “Stone Age” either, for a number of reasons, but it is useful shorthand sometimes.

I’m a Supreme Court junkie. One of my favorite classes in college was Constitutional Law, so now I read several legal blogs and court opinions as they are issued.