Somehtign a friend told me...

I was haning out in the Astronomy Resource Room (because I have no life) and talking with AJ and Dimitri and the subject got turned from registration to bad teachers we've had to a trivia game AJ's high school class played for extra credit. Basically, one member of the class would stand up and announce his specialty and the rest of the class had to try to stump him -- kind of like "Beat the Geek". One time, AJ got up and said "Astronomy" and after about 20 minutes, he agreed to step down -- his classmates were so stumped they were asking him questions that they didn't know the answers to. I pointed out that if he tried that in our Astronomy class, he would be better off choosing a secondary interest. He commented that outside of Astronomy, he really didn't have many other fields he knew about -- he mostly went to class, went to work and played computer games.

I guess I just find this hard to believe that people don't study things outside their jobs. I do astornomy, but I also write and draw. I know a lot about anime, science fiction, Star Wars, Star Trek, Tolkien, Harry Potter... I read at least an hour a week for pleasure -- and 'pleasure' might mean a linguistics book as likely as a Mercedes Lackey novel (frivolous fluffy fantasy at it's finest).

Am I just a Reiniassance person or something?