In Which We Experience Burnout

After battling a head cold for the last few days and then having it move into my chest the fatigue level has risen to a silly level and its only Tuesday.
This is the time of year when creative and motivational burnout run rampant around here. Well, at least for me. The winter continues to drag on, this year dumping almost record breaking amounts of snow (132 inches anyone?), being below average temps most of the season, and we had a whole month where we really didn't see the sun. Its the time of year where you sit down at your computer to work on something you have sort of thought about all day only to have nothing come out of your fingers when you put them on the keys.
Blankness...
I call this winter burnout. Where all the planning in the world is great but when its all waiting to happen until the snow melts, your brain starts to just see patterns and letters on the page. While many of my ideas become great coherent thoughts in my head, getting them out gets harder and harder. There are less distractions to recharge with between work and home (where I also work). You leave one computer only to find yourself right in front of another one with no idea what you were going to do.
In the warmer season when I need to do this computer to computer shuffle I often take a walk in between and then drag my laptop out to the lazy boy on the porch and enjoy the warm sunshine while I pound out the plans that are over crowding my head. You see thats what I do most of the time, event plan.
Just the other night I laid down to try and sleep (I was so tired) and what popped into my head as soon as it hit the pillow? How to logistically run the art auction for this years Benefit Evil (www.benefitevil.com). I must have mulled this over for a good half hour before I could turn that portion of my brain off. I don't actually have to think about this for MONTHS but randomly I had to think about it right then. I plan camping events on my lunch break, organize feasts and outings on scribbled down sticky notes which I then bring home and transfer into the event binder. Seriously, all the time!
So I begin to experience extreme brain drain. Its like the planning goes into overdrive to make up for the lack of color in the landscape around me.

Enough rambling, time to go try and put some other planning together.

Showtime and Starz

I love historical shows. Shows like The Tudors, Rome, and Spartacus, always seem to capture my attention like no other show can (although I am also in the middle of a new found love for Dexter). They may not always be the best of the best when it comes to shows, but when I can't be out reenacting myself, they fill in when I can't do it myself. However both these stations/production companies suffer from this problem of unnecessary sex scenes. I am no prude by any means, and a good passion scene can add a layer of emotion to a show that was not there before. But it seems to me that they have decided that simply because they are cable channels that are known for sexy they throw more sex in some episodes then some pornos have. I have even been known to fast forward through them when they show the third sex scene in 15 minutes into a show that is only an hour long. At some point you want to yell "OK I GET IT!" and wish only that they move on and get back to the story. They seem to never gotten the message that sometimes implying something can actually be more powerful then seeing it.
The imagination can often fill the gaps better then watching the scene play out in detail as told by some directors lens. I know that Henry the 8th liked to boink a lot of women, that doesn't mean I need to see the boobs of each and every one. Or in a show like Dexter where there is so much more going on that adding in a sex scene feels so tacked on and takes away from the internal turmoil of the characters which is mostly the focal point of the show.

Such is the rambling of today. I'm off to catch up on some Spartacus I missed.

Taking it for a Test Drive

So I have had a few blogs and random websites before and I have never quite made them stick. This one is going to be different...I swear! Now the topics may change depending on my mood, the weather, and what I ate for breakfast but the me who writes them will always be the same. So come along and take this random journey with me!