Outdoor education, ecology, various creative outlets, especially nature photography. Also starting to do some portrait/model photography.
Your mom. Again.
What is that?
Oh yeah, I saw one of them once. I think. Maybe.
Nope.
Textbooks: bad. Some other books: good, if the textbooks allow you time to read them. Which they don't. C'est la vie.
That's the problem with the world today. Lots of villians and people to hate (heck, no need to look farther than your own government), but no one to stand in their way.