Anonymous asked: What do you like to do in your spare time? What do you really want to do for a job?
Hey, Anon, what’s up, welcome to the inbox, way to help me kill some time, love you.
All right, give me a minute to remember what spare time is like. In all seriousness, though, I read fiction (sci-fi/fantasy because reality is dull and realistic fiction is likewise pretty dull), I write fantasy novels/fanfiction (recently), I watch Netflix and movies and read my old 60′s X-Men comics (look, the costumes are terrible and the plots are ridiculous and I’ll fight you in a back alley for the X-Men, okay?)….and I harass my roommate over whatever is available to me. And of late I listen to Hamilton and suffer over historical characters.
And as for a job, well, there are a few answers to that. In a perfect world, I wouldn’t need to sleep, and I could pull off a miracle and become a bestselling author and still work as an ER doctor and also get a full night’s rest and have free time. (This is related to my slightly weird fantasy of ‘in the event that I had millions of dollars, I would buy a couple floors of an apartment building and take in a bunch of LGBTQ+ kids who’d been kicked out of their homes and make sure they were fed and got to go to school and everything with the one requirement that they go to therapy, because a little therapy is good for everyone,’ which is heavily dependent on my having a lot of money in addition to free time. Also, please do not be led astray by this fantasy, I neither like small children nor am a nice person.) Since this is not a perfect world and I have dubious luck at best, my slightly more achievable aspiration is to work as an ER doctor at a Trauma One hospital and write not-bestselling novels on the side. This will probably be accompanied by a high degree of caffeine consumption and some sleep deprivation. What can you do. Medicine makes me happy, writing keeps me sane, it seems like a good plan to me.
