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And not just the things nobody enjoys doing like cleaning the kitchen or doing laundry. I can't even work up the motivation to go to Netflix and watch an episode of Chuck or The West Wing or Supernatural, three shows that I'm fairly invested in right now (well, two, TWW is in season 5), and I'm sitting at my computer. It would literally take two seconds to type half a word in the address bar and hit enter when autofill pops in.

I don't want to build my next house of fandom sims. I don't want to read a book, I don't even want to meander around buzzfeed. About all I feel like doing is going back and forth between page one and page two of F!S, or if my phone were upstairs and not where I accidentally left it downstairs, playing some Temple Run. But I don't want to go downstairs and get it.

Blah.

Or if you have other suggestions. (I also should go to the store, but I'd be OK if I didn't, and I ought to do laundry before it gets too late and I get paranoid about keeping my neighbors awake.

Go do the laundry and then go sit somewhere that you usually don't and chill and watch some TV of some kind.

Also I totally feel you wrt this whole dilemma.

Blah. I've been doing the same exact thing for about 2 hours now. Mixing it up with refreshing tumblr. I haven't even commented much, just keep refreshing page one page two repeat.

I'm going to go to bed. Break the cycle and live in the happy land of dreams. Good luck getting your mojo back and getting stuff done.

I get in moods like that too. Which is not good because I have a lot of Christmas presents I need to make.

What I do is pick something and promise myself that I will do it for five minutes. If I've gotten sucked into it then I keep doing it. If not, I try again with something else and repeat until I find something I can stick with. Either I find something I end up liking, or at least ends up being productive, or I did a bunch of little things that are better than doing nothing.

This is a good idea, and I think I will do it. Thanks!

Obligatory: Have you been screened for depression?

Motivation is weird. If faced with doing things that are fun for me, and not doing anything, I usually choose the latter and spend 2-3 hours angsting over how bored I am.

As to your options, I vote for doing laundry. The sense of accomplishment when everything is finally clean is remarkable, and you can watch an episode or two of one of your shows while you wash/dry/fold.

No, but this is never a two-weeks feeling. Pretty sure it's a PMS feeling that comes on a day or so after a day or so of "WHEEE PRODUCTIVITY! CREATIVITY! YAY!!"

And I think I will do laundry. Sweat pants and T-shirt and slippers, here I come. Also OJ, because I feel like I could use some OJ.

Sometimes when I'm having a hard time working up any fannish motivation, I visit the F!S Index (it's at dancing_clown's journal) and look up old secrets for fandoms I like that weren't represented today. Sometimes that'll get the juices flowing.

This happened to me a lot when I was depressed... But it still happens sometimes, in a way that feels completely qualitatively different, because I'm kind of inertia-prone due to some more benign brain stuff. (It can also be hard for me to stop doing something once I've started.)

It can be easy for some people to just get "stuck" for whatever reason, less because doing the thing sounds hard, and more because making the transition to doing the thing sounds hard. What I do is either stand up and pace around with some music for a few minutes, or wait until some arbitrary time (usually the next time the clock reads zero), and start whatever I was wanting to do then. Both things kind of ease the transition between states/activities.

If it's just a short-term infrequent thing, don't worry about it. Sometimes a brain just needs some mindless lack of variety.

If you really want to do something though, tell yourself "I will not check F!S for half an hour/one hour/whatever to force yourself to find something else to do during that period. You may find it more interesting.

Sometimes I have days like that, like today, even had a full month a few months ago. I just kind of wait them out and enjoy the solitude, sleep a lot then force myself to wiggle out of it if I have to.

Just bleh.

Chores tomorrow should pick it up for me.

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