Nothing is more fun than doing my "job", that is, research on languages and teaching linguistics. I always tell people that I get paid for doing my hobby. There is nothing that I would rather spend my time doing than discovering patterns in language data and writing them up. This carries over to teaching, since I get to show (or at least TRY to show) students how to do this, often using the same data that I mangaged to collect and analyze myself.
The most important thing that I do every day is my daily run. Unless I get injured (my aging body being a minefield of injuries waiting to explode), I run every day. I try to do 45 miles/week. I have been doing road running since the early 1970's. I used to run lots of road races, ranging from 5k to marathons, but since 1990, I have participated in only two road races per year: the Linguistics Annual 5k, and the Los Angeles Marathon. As of 2004, I have run the LA marathon eleven times and I have run it every year since 1998. My best finishing place was 5th in my age group (aka "Oldish Farts"--I move into "Old Farts" in a couple of years) in 2002. See a movie giving glimpses of my marathon experiences.
I have played music ever since I can remember, starting with piano lesson at about age 6. I started playing the clarinet in the 8th grade. I took clarinet lessons and played in ensembles all through junior high, high school, undergraduate years at the University of Oregon, and even during a year of graduate study at Northwestern University. My favorite kind of music is straight ahead jazz a la Dexter Gordon and Bud Powell, but I never got so I could play jazz myself. Most of my life I played classical music because that was all I was any good at, even though it was far from my favorite type. In the late 1990's I discovered Balkan music and the unbelievable clarinet players of Bulgaria, Macedonia, Turkey, and Greece. I have been playing in the UCLA Balkan performance ensemble for a number of years, where I have also been trying to learn to play the Bulgarian gaida (bagpipe), though I don't think I will ever get any good at it. See a couple of pictures and hear a sample of Bulgarian music.
I like going out to eat with my wiife, which we do at least a couple of times a week. I like tinkering with multimedia editing--graphics, sound, video. I like to go to plays, esp. plays in small local theaters. I used to like to watch drag racing, but most of the drag strips in Los Angeles were long ago closed.
Ideologs and fanatics--political or religious. Television and movies--these media purvey nothing but mind-numbing crap. I haven't watched television or been to a movie for years and don't ever expect to do either again. Life is too short to waste one nanosecond in front "entertainment" on a screen, big or little. Spector sports--sports are OK, but I can't see sitting around on my dead butt watching someone else play sports. Better to do it yourself. Traveling and vacations--I hate the hassles and inconvenience of traveling and I'm just bored on vacations (unless I take my work along!).