need ... inspiration ...

[veronica_rich]

This is totally not an emo post. I'm just missing my - inspiration, mojo, work ethic, whatever you want to call it. I have no desire to do much anymore, and it's driving me batty. I spent years working hard - good grades in high school and college, awards when I could, worked hard on my career (70 hours a week or more for little pay) out of college, got all kinds of awards there, too. Heck, when I lost my job five years ago, I took up temping and all kinds of part-time work just to stay afloat financially. I've lived on freelancing and legal work for the past several years. But I've hit a wall; I just can't do it anymore. I can't summon up the energy or inspiration or anything.

At this point in my career, as hard as I've worked, I ought to be somewhere, not stalled at a place 12 years in with nothing to show for it except a fancy resume I can't really use anywhere. I can't afford grad school, can't really afford to move and look somewhere else for an actual career-type job, and I simply don't know what to do to keep my spirits up and my "train on the track" these days. I've become lazy and uninspired, and that really sucks.

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[captsparrow4evr.livejournal.com]

Have you thought about getting on a reality show like The Amazing Race? Or Survivor? If you won, you would get lots of money. If you didn't win, you might at least be famous enough to get invited to the PotC3 premiere (and who knows? Maybe you'll meet Orlando Bloom and he'll fall head-over-heels in love with you, leave Kate Bosworth, and end up your devoted love-slave for the rest of eternity.) Okay, maybe not.;)

All kidding aside, I understand where you're coming from, love. I have to admit that I'm still in something of a depression from seeing DMC. Not that I disliked it or didn't enjoy it, it just didn't inspire me like the first one did. What we need is a good crack-fic to break us out of this. Something like Will/Kraken or Elizabeth/Bootstrap or-or better yet, Elizabeth/Kraken:

"Ooh, Krakie, you know just how to use your tentacles to keep a girl happy!":D

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Come to think of it, as much as I love staring at Johnny and Orlando, I don't think I'd want to live with either one of them. Johnny strikes me as high-maintenance, and ... well, so does Orlando. Not as much as Johnny, but approaching it. I don't have the energy to keep myself up AND one of those, as well. Or look good on either arm.

It takes a while for inspiration from DMC to settle in, yes. It's coming in trickles, and still isn't completely there, but there IS good stuff to be gleaned from it. I think the main problem is that everyone had padded out their own fanon to a degree that what happened in the second one pretty much ripped chunks of it away. (Except for the J/E people, and do not get me started on that ill-conceived plot device. I don't begrudge anyone their pairing, but I am allowed my own opinion.)