{"id":882,"date":"2005-06-12T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-13T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/06\/12\/looking-for-inspiration\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:49:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:49:35","slug":"looking-for-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/06\/12\/looking-for-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"LOOKING FOR INSPIRATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was feeling particularly blank today. I am not sure why, but it probably has something to do with the moon or the rain or the numbers at the wrong end of the temperature scale. Perhaps I&#8217;m just tired, which isn&#8217;t wholly out of the realm of probability with me on any given day.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like feeling blank, and I don&#8217;t WANT to feel blank. I sat here and stared at the screen for several minutes and nothing, but nothing, came to me. I thought earlier about some things to write about, but inspiration has flown off elsewhere and is hopefully lighting a fire under some other lucky writer and not sitting in a dark, smoky bar somewhere, with her head in her hands and a whisky sour in front of her, because there&#8217;s nothing uglier than a drunken, belligerent inspiration getting all up in your face and demanding to know what you intend to do about it, huh, HUH?<\/p>\n<p>Not that I&#8217;d know, having never been drunken and belligerent. At least not ever having been drunken. I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ve been belligerent. In fact, my brother can probably confirm that I was belligerent just recently. Heh.<\/p>\n<p>I have these urges to go and play with art supplies, but they usually occur 10 minutes before the dryer beeps or dinner needs to be started, or while I&#8217;m in the shower getting ready for work.<\/p>\n<p>I have these urges to sit down and write a poem or a short story or a journal entry, but they seem to occur while I&#8217;m zoning out in the passenger seat, or right before I fall asleep, or while I&#8217;m in the shower getting ready for work.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t talked to my mom in weeks, maybe that has something to do with it. She&#8217;s busy helping my sister pack up her family and house and move to St. Louis. Talking to my mom is very grounding, usually (unless she&#8217;s just been to one of her psychic seminars*).<\/p>\n<p>Then, I thought, well, duh. Go read your friends page. There&#8217;s always something going on out there, and someone to talk to, and cheer up, and cheer on, and read about, and maybe you&#8217;ll find that slacker, inspiration, and remind her it&#8217;s your turn, dammit. And there she was, and she was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/ibyi\/321196.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TALKING ABOUT ME<\/a>. (and she was right about my link!! LOL)<\/p>\n<p>Re\u00e9, thank you. I&#8217;m floored and moved and touched and grateful. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><b>Really Great Writing Out There Right Now<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.salon.com\/0004595\/2005\/06\/12.html#a73\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Girly Girl<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>More Really Great Writing Out There Right Now<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/noplace2hide.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/showering-with-god.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Showering With God<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-3\">*haha! that was a joke, mom! \ud83d\ude1b<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was feeling particularly blank today. I am not sure why, but it probably has something to do with the moon or the rain or the numbers at the wrong end of the temperature scale. Perhaps I&#8217;m just tired, which isn&#8217;t wholly out of the realm of probability with me on any given day. I don&#8217;t like feeling blank, and I don&#8217;t WANT to feel blank. I sat here and stared at the screen for several minutes and nothing, but nothing, came to me. I thought earlier about some things to write about, but inspiration has flown off elsewhere and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,5],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-blogalicious","tag-puttingwordstogether"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5637,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/5637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}