Opening it up...

[lithera]

Feel free to ask me a question or two. The interview thing is fine, but I'm generally all for questions. There aren't many I won't answer. So... Ask me something and I'll post the answer. (Or if for some reason you don't want me to, I can always e-mail it to you.)

I'm getting a little burned out on gaming. I'm not sure what I want to do about it yet, but I can feel the burn out hovering in the background. Some people can game every other day. I, however, cannot. (Thank goodness I'm not trying to, either.)

I'm a little tired this morning. The guy in the office with me this morning either played rap with lots of words in the songs I don't want being said while I'm on the phone... or easy listening that puts me to sleep. So, I listen to my stuff but I can only wear headphones for so long. Especially when I'm making phone calls.

*yawn*

Comments

[sgoilear.livejournal.com]

I think everyone has gaming cycles (for how frequently they want to engage in gaming). A year and a half ago, I was playing in two more-or-less weekly tabletop games, and running a twice-monthly one (with a *lot* of between-sessions one-on-one work). Five years ago, I was going to 3-5 LARPs every week!

When I got burned out, I cut back on playing until I didn't feel burned out. Which sometimes meant cutting back, other times meant quitting them all ... and if a group folded because I quit, I'd feel a little bad, sure. But really, it's better to do that, than get resentful, 'cause you feel it's your obligation to play (to satisfy others).

And ... heh, I have a roomie who swears like a sailor, esp. to computer games he's playing. Nothing like having Mom or my boss on the phone (when I'm at home) and have them hear a string of expletives ... *rolls eyes*

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hate that. I hate feeling obligated to game. I mean, I know that other people depend on my characters and that a lot of people have emotions and time invested, but if what I'm doing for escape is causing as much stress as the thigns I'm trying to escape from? I hate that.

Luckily its been awhile since that's been the case.

[thezzyzx.livejournal.com]

This [burning out] was something that I was wondering about since you do seem to game quite a bit. I know my own obsessions ebb and flow, but figured that could just be my own personality.

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

Maybe I do game a lot. I only have the others I know to compare myself to and, after looking at them, I know I could be gaming a lot more than I am.

[thezzyzx.livejournal.com]

Heh and Phish are playing 7 shows this summer that I won't be going to, but that doesn't mean that I don't see them a lot and that I need to ramp down to prevent burnout. :)

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

*shrugs*

I really don't see it as a lot. There are just other things I would rather be doing in some cases, I think.

[thezzyzx.livejournal.com]

That is pretty natural I think. I really didn't want to go play softball yesterday because I wanted to do other things. Whenever you do something regularly, it will occasionally interfere with other things.

[horriblywrong.livejournal.com]

Don't forget to add in your MUSHing time...

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

Recently it hasn't been all that much either. I didn't even get a night in last week, though I did chat a bit on Wednesday. Been too busy.

[tomthedog.livejournal.com]

Story about bad things while on the phone:

I once worked for Blondie's Pizza in Berkeley, which was staffed primarily by students who didn't give a rat's ass about service. One night, the manager got a call from a customer complaining about a pizza that wasn't delivered. And after a brief period of trying to make things right, with the customer refusing to be mollified, the manager finally shouted into the phone, "You want your pizza, bitch?"

Then he pulled back from the phone, and looked at the receiver as though he were surprised, and said to me, "I guess not."

What does this have to do with your post? Only that I've told this story out loud maybe three or four times, and to get the context right, you really have to bellow, "bitch!" And every time I've told this story, it turns out I was unaware of someone on the phone in close proximity to me, who was having a conversation in which the interjection "bitch" was fairly inappropriate. Not rap music, but along the same lines.