My Hobbies

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My Hobbies
Joseph Haigh LIBR 500 Foundations of Information
Technology jhaigh_at_interchange.ubc.ca

• A History in Three Acts For The Twin Purposes of
  Enjoyment and Self-Scrutiny

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Act One

• Early Activities and Enthusiasms

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Raised by media theorists, I was exposed to
culture from the beginning.
As my mother liked to say when I would ask if I
could play outside, there has never been and
never will be an unmediated state.
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Some of my earliest memories

• Mother reading the phonebook to me through the
  intercom as I would fall asleep
• Drawing oxygen molecules with Father
• Making musique concrète with Big Sis
• And sometimes with my imaginary friend Rupert

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When I was 18, I invented a skateboard trick
called the early-grab stale-fish to late
pressure flip (not pictured).
As I believed the move could never be topped, I
deemed my work in the field of amateur exhibition
skateboarding to be finished.
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Act TWO

• Quotidian Pleasures and Societies of Leisure

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In my early twenties, I felt it was time to
experiment with moustaches and become an adult.
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At the same time, I sought leisure and company in
various societies.
The cooking club, for example,
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and the society for creative synchronism.
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I thought about starting a book club

• but ultimately opted to join what turned out to
  be my favourite society at that timethe portrait
  club.

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Act Three

• Further Maturation

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Nowadays, Im busy becoming a librarian, but I
still find time to refresh my faculties.

• For the time being, Ive left moustaches, clubs,
  and childish performance art behind in favour of
  beards and self-reflection.

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Who knows what the future will bring?
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The End
All photographs were taken by the author or his
family.