{"id":74,"date":"2008-10-24T09:38:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T09:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/vexvox\/2008\/10\/24\/creativity_hangover\/"},"modified":"2008-10-24T09:38:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T09:38:30","slug":"creativity_hangover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/2008\/10\/24\/creativity_hangover\/","title":{"rendered":"Creativity hangover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#039;m bored with everything right now.<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;m not in the mood to work in the studio. I&#039;m not in the mood to write reviews or post blog entries. I&#039;m not in the mood to shoot videos. I&#039;m not in the mood to write creatively. I&#039;m not in the mood to watch TV or movies. I&#039;m certainly not in the mood to build web sites.<\/p>\n<p>If I try to engage in something, I get fatigued mentally. I just don&#039;t want to do anything.<\/p>\n<p>And I finally figured out why &#8212; it&#039;s a creative hangover. I jumped head long into a whole bunch of endeavors this summer, from releasing a CD to shooting music videos. I even self-published a novel. I had the sense I was really pushing myself, but I didn&#039;t really realize till now just how much creative fuel I&#039;ve exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>Just about everything, really.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#039;m in this curious nether state where nothing engages me. It&#039;s kind of alarming and comforting at the same time. Part of me wishes the creative juice would get replenished, but like the Central Texas weather as of late, I&#039;m going through a drought. Guess that&#039;s what I get for not conserving.<\/p>\n<p>So I pretty much sleepwalk through the work day, then veg out in front of the TV at night. I have been hanging out in gay websites more often, and a series of events in the past week resulted in my giving my phone number to a guy. I&#039;m working out still, but even that&#039;s reached a lull &#8212; I hit a plateau in August, and I&#039;ve actually been gaining weight instead of losing weight. (Could be muscle, though.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;m pretty much disconnected.<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;d be annoyed, but annoying is boring too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#039;m bored with everything right now. I&#039;m not in the mood to work in the studio. I&#039;m not in the mood to write reviews or post blog entries. I&#039;m not in the mood to shoot videos. I&#039;m not in the mood to write creatively. I&#039;m not in the mood to watch TV or movies. I&#039;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkgj-1c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}