spending free time

i got up this previous sunday morning with pain in my throat, some dry cough and some body ache. it wasn't that bad, was able to go to lab for the past 2 days, although skipped the karate class on monday. yesterday night the cough became worse, was unable to sleep well, and decided to take half the day off today. have another karate class today, dunno if i can make it.

sometime about last week i put my netflix account on hold. now netflix is this online dvd rental site from where you rent dvds which are sent to you by post. there is just a monthly fee (no late fee), you can watch unlimited movies, and have 3 movies in transit at any time.

now most of my time in the evenings and weekends is spent in either watching movies from netflix or listening to music. don't know what exactly made me put netflix on hold, guess i wanted to take a break from watching movies (i saw 17 movies from netflix in the last 30 days, thats more than 1 movie for every 2 days!); and also see how i would spend my time without it. and i found that i had pretty much nothing else to do. not that i am bored most of the time or passing time has become a real chore. time still flies but can't account that to something specific like watching a movie.

so i thought about what do people usually do in their free time, ie in the evenings and nights:
- guess people who are married are anyways busy with children and other household chores.
- guess people who are in relationships spend time with each other, doing exaclty what - i don't know; but time should pass pretty easily for them.
- guess people who are career or work driven are more or less busy with work even after work hours or too tired to do anything else.
- guess people who are outgoing or have lots of friends spend most of the time outside the house with friends or doing some other outdoor activity.
- guess people whose life revolves around some particular hobby or interest or passion or goal or cause etc. (for eg. social workers or serious researchers) are busy with that.
- guess people who don't fall into any of the above categories (like me) just sit at home and either watch tv or movies, browse the net, listen to music or some other indoor activity. (like cooking)
- guess the above holds only for somewhat affluent families or well to do people, who can afford to do the above things and for whom searching for the next meal is not a major concern.