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So I just graduated college in June. My college schedule was pretty crazy and basically just inconsistent. Not only did it vary by semester, depending on what courses I was taking, but by day too. This one semester last year, I had a class at 8:30AM every other day and then at like 1:15PM opposing days. That’ll really mess your body up. Then, on the weekends, I would sleep until like 1-2-3PM because I didn’t really have anything to do but homework, which I could do anytime. It was really bad.

Then, this summer, I was applying for jobs. I would wake up at like 10AM and go to bed at like 2 or 3AM. Then the next day I would sleep till noon and go to bed even later. I did this until I got to the point where I would wake up at 3 and go to bed at like 6am, which was just stupid. Anyway…

I got a job that’s like 1.5 hours commute each way. Now I go to bed at like 10:30-11PM and wake up at 6AM. I’m feeling a lot better - like just healthier. But also, psychologically better because I feel like I have the whole day ahead. When I would wake up later, I felt like I was wasting time. When I would stay up later, I just felt blah. All in all, it’s worth waking up earlier to me, but I really enjoyed sleeping late. Those days are gone, even on the weekend. I woke up at 6AM this morning - it’s Sunday!

I realize I have a good skill-base upon which I could build some hobbies, but I don’t know what I want to do. I just started a new job - my first real job after college - about 5 weeks ago. Thus, my life’s in a real state of flux—not quite settled yet. But it’s become apparent that I really don’t have much time during the week for hobbies since I get home from work late and go to bed early so I can go to work the next day, early in the morning. I’m looking for a weekend hobby that I can do alone OR with others, but not obligately both. My brother is in the volunteer fire department, which occupies most of his weekends. I see that it’s something he really enjoys. But I’m not sure I’d like to commit to a hobby like that. I’m afraid of it gobbling up my entire weekend. But then, I reason, that hobby’s not for me. HELP!

Gmail’s awesome. I’m trying to get an invite to Orkut, so if someone could help me out with that, I’d be really happy and grateful.