Crossword puzzles make me feel stupid ... But I'm hooked

As my free time continues to grow, I continue to discover ways to waste these extra hours away. The activities have to be time consuming but also free because as I mentioned before I'm a broke student with no job. My latest thing is doing the crossword puzzle from the Edmonton Journal and actually finishing it. This may sound impressive at first but don't jump to quickly to the conclusion that I'm brillant because I am not. I completed my first entire crossword today and it was offically 12 days since I started it. Wait it gets better, I used multiple resources to do it. The internet, books, other people, you name it and I tried to use it to finish this crossword thus the many hours that it took me to do it and therefore a great waste of time. I also learnt many, fairly useless pieces of trivia. For example, "muy" in Spanish means very, and for whatever reason I were to be in Turkey I would need Liras to catch a cab out of there. Or that "stoles" are fur wraps, so if I ever need to buy some fur I'll know what to ask for. That's a funny image, me wearing fur. Anyway, in the end I only had one clue wrong and I succeded at consuming some of my free time.

Overall I was pretty happy with myself for having completed it despite all the extra help I needed. So today I start a new one in hopes to beat my 12 day record and get them all right. My goal is to someday do the entire crossword without any help. It is a very long term goal as you can tell. But I know it can be done. If my grandma can do it by the time I'm her age I know I will be able to too.