Now that I am out of school, I am realizing more and more that I don't really like learning for learning's sake. I suppose that is a bad thing to say and an undesirable attribute to have, but I can hardly deny that it is true. The reading and learning that I do outside of my profession is almost always geared at learning a new skill that I intend to use. For instance, I have very little desire to read classic literature but am currently trying to plow through a James Beard cookbook so I can move on to Michel Suas' "Advanced Bread and Pastry" textbook. I spent much of my 2L year in law school learning and reading about music, not because I am a fan, but because I was trying to compose. Right now, the only new book I plan on ordering is one teaching me a programming language (probably Flex). Why Flex? Because it is easier to produce a final product. Oh well.