I Love to cook and am planning to attend the Western Culinary Institute in the fall for their Restaurant Management and Hospitality Le Cordon Blue program. Some other things I enjoy are chilling with friends, computers, video games, socializing, movies, and music.
Friends and friends of friends.
Club Jazz/Acid Jazz (ie: Ktoyo Jazz Massive, Monday Michiru, Jazzanova), Electronic Bossa (ie: the Bossa Mundo compilation CD), House (ie: Mondo Grosso), J-pop/rock(m-flo, Orange Range, Do as Infinity, etc.), Kalapana, Earth Wind and Fire, Queen, and anything else that catches my ear (ie: If its got rhythm, melody, and a groove, I am game).
King Kong, Memoirs of a Geisha, Lord of the Rings, Harry, Potter, Narnia, Japanese horror, Shall We Dance, Studio Gibli, Shawshank Repedmtion, Green Mile, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer, The Rock, and most anything else.
CSI, House, Mythbusters, MASH, Hisotry Channel, Discovery Channel
Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Da Vinci Code, Frankenstein, Zombie Survival Guide (for a laugh, though a suprisingly informative book), Welcome to the Monkey House, Dungeons and Dragons Forgotten Realms books, Horror sotries, among others.
Just gotta do what you can do, and leave no regrets.