I like reading, and learning about lots of things. I play games, like Scrabble, that require a working brain to be good at. Are these such awful things? Recently a coworker criticized me for playing Scrabble via the internet in lab - not because I was wasting valuable research resources for (God forbid) pleasure purposes, but because one shouldn't enjoy activities that tax one's brain. I say bah - if I'd rather read "Ivanhoe" than "Us Weekly," and would rather play Scrabble than stare blankly at a computer screen while the machines are taking and recording data for me, does that make me a bad person? Maybe a weird person or an elitist or some other such nonsense, but not bad or wrong.