NationStates Jolt Archive

I hope i'm not the only one here that does stuff besides NS. What do you guys do.

I run constantly on my highschool's track and crosscountry teams and play the sax, jazzy styly.

"Do"? You mean we're supposed to have a life outside NS?

What an odd concept.

theres something outside NS?

Well, I am my school's mascot, I do a lot of activities with my church youth group, until recently I was gainfully employed for 4 years, and about once a week I run a D&D game with a few friends. Yep, that is about it. Oh, I also run track, cross country, and play soccer.

Either study, entertain my gf or play with my new dig-cam :)

Out....side? :s

Think about NS?

i sleep a lot, hang out with my friends, take long walks at night, meet girls and chat on the horror forum at imdb.

Let's see, other things then NS? Well there is the production of NS-O's, and NS-Candy Bars! :P

Actually...

I run cross country, study, write articles for educational sites, read up on Geography in Geographica, practice my saxophone for three different teachers, create and run websites, bike around town for lunch and other items (I live in the country), write letters to other people on NS, take care of animals on our property, cook meals for people, write tests on educational subjects, etc., etc.

Well, not that much stuff other than NS...

Umm, I play guitar rocky styly, stay up all night playing games, sleep at university, get drunk, or maybe stoned if i'm in the mood...maybe even go out sometimes. And that's about it.

(Is it me or are these forums slower than before :( hope that's temporary...)

Outside NS? When you said that it reminded me of National Service.... but then there is also nothing outside of National Service as well. From one prison to another.... except that in this prison i can go out anytime but i choose not to...

Eh..I'm on vacation right now, staying at my girl's place, so I've been taking it easy...NS has actually not been on my mind. *listens to the gasps of shock*I know, I know..

I'm a Student Ambassador myself. Just got back from Brazil last Friday after spending 19 days there. I draw, read, and basically immerse myself in the Air Force...yes, I'm joining the Air Force. And, I listen to music. My faves are Disturbed (favorite is either Loading the Weapon or Sickness) and Rammstein (Favorite is Sonne). I talk with friends and watch TV. But I still get enough time to exercise...need to lose some flab. And sleeping. That's about it.

When I have time, I play computer games and Dance Dance Revolution.

--The Democratic States of Cogitation

I work or use drugs.

there are three other thing that I do outside of NS. Work, Sleep, and go the washroom. (I can eat and play NS at the same time)

I play and watch various sports, hang out with friends and things, sleep a lot and I'm involved in Unyanz (www.unyanz.co.nz)

Outside...of...NS? What a hidious thing to think about. You should all be ashamed!

Outside of NS?

One thing I do is THIS --> :sniper:

Also, I'm in the Marching Band, Boy Scouts, and something else I can't remember. Oh yeah! Eat and sleep.

(I can eat and play NS at the same time, too! Wow! -feels special-)

I also play the drumset. Rock, funk, and (the 999999 different styles of) Latin.

But my favorite drumset style has to be...../


JAZZ!

Uh, since I have been without the forums for so long, I have developed these habits (hopefully temporariliy)

Play guitar (and since everyone is naming style, rock and jazz)
Read (Just finished the newest "Dark Tower" book, starting on the Foundation Trilogy)
Write (articles and short stories)
Play baseball (I just feel the need to keep up the parentheses)
Play computer games (Ground Control right now)
Sometimes I sleep, but I always wake up in a cold sweat thinking about how there might be some new posts.

Outside of NS i erm... go on the forums for the regions im in :) and i run my own website and erm....... do i do anything offline? Dont think so.

P.s. Yay my first post on the new forums

Work. Play other games (http://nations.netnexus.com/). Go out with my lady. Go to Universal Studios Japan. Drink beer. Read lots of books.

I'll hunt you down Tellenthion, I'll:
Take away your guitar (and all your styles!)
Take away all your books (I'll bring down the author of "Foundation Trilogy")
I'll take away your pen and paper (HAHAHA and your little hands so you never write again!)
Take away your baseball things (please refrain from hitting me with a bat...)
Yake all your computer games and all the memory and throw it out into the sea (or just use it in my computer)
I'll not let you sleep, give you a towel for that cold sweat, and find "Where do you think?" and chain you to a chair and force you to be on NS 24-7!

I created a list of signs of addiction to NS. After three days, it had like 160 entries. Do you really think I do something else? :)

WEll, I mostly do stuff online, if I can help it.. rping and stuff on lotrplaza, thinking about lord of the rings, uh, watching lord of the rings, surfing the net, playing my clarinet, wearing a hair net? (ok, no more rhyming with 'net'..)
Riding horses, reading, watching That 70's Show, The X-Files, other funny shows (or cool ones and such). uh, going to school, trying to make money some way or another, secluding myself in the drab recesses of my room and not talking to anyone for long periods of time.. WEll, that's pretty much my life, and it's not that great, cept for the net...yeah.. LIFE OUT OF NATIONSTATES?? UNHEARD OF!! lmao

I just go bonkers, stark raving mad. I have 75 million slaves, emm, citizens to look after. You really expect me to have a real-life life? *shivers* Anyhoo, I read, sing, crap, bitch, check other online stuff, play Yu-Gi-Oh!, just a small bunch of stuff.

elfwood, elftown, vcl, side-7, hip forums, care-2, make 'art' with drafting software on computer, build and modify rail network simulations on computer, cook, wash dishes, wash clothes, build little trains (in several sizes including for my little garden outside, web surf, walk six blocks to my mom's, hug my wife and listen to kvmr, that pretty much covers most of the dayly routine. feed and look after my neighbor's doggie while their away on a fishing trip. sit outside and run the little train arround in the garden. occasionaly i've been known to walk over to the musium i used to docent at, just for a visit and see how things are going there. like visiting my mom this is something i probably ought to do more often and maybe even would if it wasn't so deathly hot this time of year. so mostly i do hide inside under the air conditioning. once in a great whyile i might walk over to the train store or the hardware store and buy something. or ride arround on the buss. also sleep alot and dream a lot and there's a bunch of other forums and websites i visit more or less almost dayly like the european railway picture gallery and of course check my e-mail. always looking for new pictures of unusual and organic looking architecture and some of my favorite more or less exotic creatures like red pandas and pine martins and so on. did i mention visiting forums and lists of ride on size little trains too. and solar and mechanical tecnology sites. and and ... oh and then there's furcon once a more or less year (the con is every year but i don't expect to be able to afford to go every year. and there's the train ride i very much enjoy down to it. there's other cons i'd like to go to like baycon and panthiacon. used to go to orycons when i was in porsfis up in portland, but that was decades ago and before the net).

then there's all the things i'd like to do which i even less often get arround to. but that would fill pages and pages.

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watch news on tv a bit, read newspaper locally and lots of online news and columns etc. plenty of blogs. Hang with friends and family. Eat and sleep. Read various things/research I like reading books or online. I watch movies and anime and enjoy music of various kinds. How's that? Lots of things besides NS I also play various other PC and console games besides NS

what i do other than NS? NS takes up a lot of my time! :)

sleep when absolutely necessary, walk (involves looking at wildlife, birds, plants, landuse, geology, map reading)...enjoy cooking...and eating what i cook...chatting with friends who i don't meet on NS...and cooking for them...catching up with college reading...reading other stuff...listening to music...playing the piano...

i'm trying to get a part time job...in a pharmacy...16hrs per week...this may sound weird but the staff in our local pharmacy are a great bunch and good company and it seemed like a good place to be :D

Usenet & LiveJournal :)

well i did play the guitar (mainly classical) but i kind of had that on hold during exams but i will start up again soon. I read (i absolutly eat up books), play computer games, get whooped at dominoes by my 5 year old brother, listen to music (pretty much everything you can think of except pop, rap, r'n'b and hip hop), listen to the radio (generally radio4 or XFM) and thats about it i think.


on a random note i just tried to use my mobile as a computer mouse.

well I...take a lot of classes...just...see...how much I can do before...I explode...or kill something...was afraid I wasn't doing enough, so I decided to take organic chemistry and get a job for the summer...and in a month I'm gonna help some freshmen move in...so I mean, when will I move in? Eh...then I start 20 hours of classes...including 10 hours of research/week (makes up 3 of those 20 hours)...
SO basically I practice masochism by deciding late in my second year that I wanted to major in neuroscience as well as biomedical engineering, AND that I wanted to get more involved in community stuff

Oh, and I live in New Orleans...that's an activity

edit: *twitch*

When I have time, I play computer games and Dance Dance Revolution.

--The Democratic States of Cogitation

Gotta love DDR

Aah! It's coming for me.

*cowers in corner*

Real Life! It's out there. . .somewhere. . .trying to suck me into its world.

I read, write, play basketball, go to school, watch TV, go on other websites and forums, and not that much else.

Well, let's see:

I play with my baby boy.
I boink my wife.
I work two jobs.
I hang out with friends, often engaging in sports. Especially football and rugby.

I manage to fit some reading in here and there.

Fortunately, they say that when you're crazy, the first thing to go is your sense of time. Otherwise, I would probably wonder how I fit all that in. :D

Well, let's see:

I play with my baby boy.
I boink my wife.
I work two jobs.
I hang out with friends, often engaging in sports. Especially football and rugby.

I manage to fit some reading in here and there.

Fortunately, they say that when you're crazy, the first thing to go is your sense of time. Otherwise, I would probably wonder how I fit all that in. :D

Boink with your wife? Now that is a cool term.

I wrestle for the High School (2nd season coming up), do various church activities, and workout alot. Also visit the forums at heavengames.com. I love to study the American Civil War (I'm a Confederate through and through), I recently joined the local Sons of Confederate Veterans chapter, read, and play Day of Defeat, Sid Meier's Gettysburg!, and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri on the computer. I love college and NFL football (Go Clemson Tigers and Carolina Panthers!), and I play NCAA Football 2004 on PS2 ALL THE TIME.
And I have a very hot gf. (no, really) ;)

Nothing. I AM Nationstates.

Boink with your wife? Now that is a cool term.

I think it's one of the most underappreciated terms for sexual intercourse ever.

It really describes sex the way I see it; as good clean fun.

I think it's one of the most underappreciated terms for sexual intercourse ever.

It really describes sex the way I see it; as good clean fun.

Well, it doesn't necessarily have to be clean.

Well, it doesn't necessarily have to be clean.

Touche' ;)

Carve civil war figurines out of cabbage.

Well. I do have that full time job that tends to get in the way of everything else.

I do a lot of fishing. And NS. Fishing and NS, yep, that's me.

I'm currently a high school student. I'm also a rifle shooter (.22).

Lets see, I race SCCA Solo 2 autocross, target shoot with handguns (not competitively tho, racing takes all my extra money), computer gaming (mostly Mechwarrior Mercs, am in the NBT league under the name Valen), and of course work.

Trying to finish my Master's by September and work parttime

I play Allegiance (http://www.freeallegiance.org/). Or I eat/sleep. But I do either NS or Allegiance.

jack around in photoshop and illustrator.

Read, sleep, work, arrange plans that fall through...the usual.

I play the String Bass in my High School Orchestra, study for school (when in session), Scholastic Bowl!!, I am in a band called All Natural Artificial Flavor, I also draw a little. I am also on Student Council. I also act in school plays and such. Yay!

oh, and i work, and read, and draw, and rock out to my music, and sometimes do things with friends, and buy shoes.

OH lets see......besides Nationstates.......well, first i'm very much involved in theater, i'm a total thespian. hehe...and i'm a member of my highschool's mock trial team which for the first time ever, finished with more than one win!!!!!! YEAH BABY!!!!!!

Whatever the Army tells me to...

Well, since I haven't been playing all that long I'm not as addicted as some *cough* (give me time) so I work in IT from 8:00 - 16:00 and then go to lectures from 16:30 - 20:00 and run the Dementia Forum site (http://www.dementia.za.net) for the other members of my region here in NS.

:) Enough?

Well I read, talk to my friends on MSN, hang out with my friends(shop, swim, go to the beach, go to parties, go to movies, go bowling), go to school when it's not summer (going into gr. 12), train for trampoline (yes it's a sport, check the olympics... i'm inter-provincial), umm watch TV, watch/read/listen to the news, listen to music (Billy Talent, Green Day, Outkast, The Weekend, Incubus, NAS, Hot Hot Heat etc... my new obsession is british rap group The Streets). That's about it I guess, besides the obvious.

Well I read, talk to my friends on MSN, hang out with my friends(shop, swim, go to the beach, go to parties, go to movies, go bowling), go to school when it's not summer (going into gr. 12), train for trampoline (yes it's a sport, check the olympics... i'm inter-provincial), umm watch TV, watch/read/listen to the news, listen to music (Billy Talent, Green Day, Outkast, The Weekend, Incubus, NAS, Hot Hot Heat etc... my new obsession is british rap group The Streets). That's about it I guess, besides the obvious.


I am no longer trusted to jump on trampolines.

God bless NS. Based on most of the previous responses, NationStates is one of the most concentrated bastions of geekhood ever. And I think that is terrific. Those who are young, enjoy that you live in an age when dorkiness is thus indulged. Those who are not young, aren't you glad you lived to see the day? 30 years ago, half of the people on this website would be glued to CB radios, and the other half would be just a little too involved in Dungeons & Dragons. How far we've come.
I just wish fewer of you were so enamored with guns... but that's me.

For my part, I'm a performer and a graphic designer. I spend my time auditioning, designing, rollerblading, trying to gym away my body fat, working the odd job, and reading voraciously (current recommendations, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, by Haruki Murakami, and The Man Who Was Thursday, by G. K. Chesterton).

SLEEP!!!

well, play Civ3 and get to wipe out Gandi, mess about on the net in general. get stupidly drunk with my brother-in-law at 3am and rant about how everything is cr*p and how we should take over the world (mwaahaha) read the WOT web comic wotnow (its so ace!!) pine for a new T.Prattchet book (He is the one and only True God) have conviluted philosophy arguments with my bf just for the fun of it them transcribe my ideas into my rants on forum.

oh yeah, did i mention SLEEP?

I am part of a micronation called Cyberia. I am a cabinet minister; chief of defence staff & speaker of the national assembly.

Micronations simulate the activities of real world government. Check us out at:
http://vcc.4mg.com

Wake up > eat > excrete > fling myself into fleshy vat.

There's stuff to do...besides NS!?! J/K

Well, I eat, sleep, go to school, swim in my pool, play hockey, and a bunch of other junk.

I work as a researcher for a publishing company that publishes government directories. Besides that, I listen to music, sing karaoke, write, and lately, I read (currently reading Jennifer Government!)

I BS on NS, and then I BS in real life.

Apart from that, I'm currently tracking a hurricane rushing towards us. =D

I BS on NS, and then I BS in real life.

Apart from that, I'm currently tracking a hurricane rushing towards us. =D

You have the insight that I lack. I don't see it as so much BS.

You have the insight that I lack. I don't see it as so much BS.

um...thanks....

*blushes*

I attend a respectable univeristy ('college' in U.S parlance) in Australia in a very technical subject.

I try to maintain a steady romantic relationship with a certain stunning blonde woman :)

And I generally try to stay alive and better myself.

Hopefully no one ever notices this terminally lame reply.

JiangGuo

I noticed your terminally lame reply!

P.S:
Where are the smilies? I can't see them anywhere!

I noticed your terminally lame reply!

P.S:
Where are the smilies? I can't see them anywhere!


Here^

I noticed your terminally lame reply!

P.S:
Where are the smilies? I can't see them anywhere!

Top of the page...in thread tools i think...or you can just do a : followed by a ) or whatever and it comes out just fine like :)

Shoot stuff.

I like to explode things in my spare time...... :sniper: :rolleyes:

I hang out with my girlfriend and play Counter-Strike.

Sadly enough, I miss that lifestyle. I have been in Germany for the past 24 days and I cannot wait to get back home. I miss my girlfriend especially. *sigh* Anyways...

Exist.

Seriously I do other things besides NS but most them involve the internet or offline computer games, though I do like reading and the outdoors.

i just got back from the world's best las vegas vacation. drinking, carousing, gambling......

my sister and i have 4 different ebay ids that we use to sell stuff on ebay

fran40too: nude, semi-nude and feet paintings in watercolor. nothing up right now

kokoshep: mostly tiny original paintings in watercolor or acrylics suitable for dollhouses.

desertchix: stuff we buy at local auctions and resell on ebay

chinachix: stuff we are starting to import from china for resale on ebay and eventually other venues.

we just got back from vacation (see above) so it'll be a few days before we get stuff listed again.

other than that im a wife and mother living the good life in the middle of nowhere new mexico.

Exist.

Seriously I do other things besides NS but most them involve the internet or offline computer games, though I do like reading and the outdoors.

Yeah, I play politics Uk, and read.

Well, i used to go to school, but i realized that what i was doing was not for me. I post on the TrekkBBS a lot. I play computer games at home and watch TV. So i don't do much to begin with.

um...thanks....

*blushes*

Do not blush at a member of your own gender! (I'm male, for everyone's information.)

What?? There is a world besides Nation states?????????

On the internet, play other games, ie Archspace (as.mlsecurity.com) and look at micronations. (www.micro-nations.org) (www.aericanempire.com)
Off the internet I program, read and do homework...

Shoo! Shoo! Listen to your parents, 'cause they are right about this. You really should go out more. That's what I'd be doing if I could just live on welfare and if my friend hadn't lent me seasons 4 and 5 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I only wish... All work and Buffy make me pale.

Apart from Nationstates, well, I play another online game. Infact, that is the reason i found out about this, a friend on it told me to join.

Outside of computer games (of which I have many, not just internet) I am football crazy, and i spend plent of time finding out every useless fact about Middlesbrough, my favourite team. I also like several other sports.