Investing and Money - I've recently started investing. Below
is a great site about managing your money and investing.
I obviously have a ton of interests besides those listed above,
those were just little things I could fill out when I was designing
this website, hence the relative restrictiveness of the scope.
I was an English major in college, so I love reading everything
and taking in all sorts of inane knowledge. I've just got this
unquenchable thirst for learning, which is probably why I'm not too
afraid about going to law school after finishing my PhD. I
have admittedly stopped reading many leisure books as regularly as
I'd like since I've been trying to write my dissertation in my spare
time. But besides reading a lot of non-fiction, fiction, and
the occasional autobiography, I pour through the Wall Street Journal
everyday to stay on top of things, and to plan my investments when I
actually start making some real money!
Cars are a huge hobby of mine, reading about them, and then of
course, modifying them. Now that my
Contour SVT is sold, I'm
planning on getting a tuner car from Japan that could really make it
easy to have something reliable and fast for a relatively cheap
amount of money. I'm leaning towards either a Mitsubishi
Lancer Evolution or a Subaru WRX Sti. I'll see, but it was
definitely very difficult selling my car on ebay.
Sports keep me occupied otherwise. I swam competitively my
entire life, so whenever I get a chance, I like to take a dip and
whip out a couple of 50's free (my times suck now, the best I'm
getting in 50m is a 38sec!) I play basketball and football,
but those tend to be more social excursions when my friends are up
to playing. I did have an IM team in grad school, we sucked,
but it was fun! I bike occasionally, only because my brother
is a professional biker and he gave me one of his kick ass mountain
bikes.
I'm an avid movie goer/watcher, and of course like TV as well.
It's tough with limited time now of these days, but I usually have
TIVO marathons on the weekend when I'm cleaning up the house and
decompressing.
I like going out with my friends on the weekends, bar hopping,
dancing, drinking, whatever. The scene in Houston is a little
contrived, but whatever, it's the crowd you're going out with that
really makes the night, not the place you're at. And
thankfully, I've got fun friends that keep the scene alive.
