The entirety of my WoW career has been pretty bipolar¹; it’s seen episodes of manic activity and also bouts of depressed burnout.

The past 4 months or so have been pretty much burnout central and it’s taken its toll. I have had little or no time or motivation to write. Each project I pick up seems to fall by the wayside and I never get it off the ground. I posted in December about two Gnome mages which I had started and was planning to level to 80 with RAF. Well, they’re 47 right now and my RAF bonus has expired. I didn’t do very well with that project. I didn’t write a single post about my setup or my play style. I didn’t even play them often enough to get them leveled up within my 3 month window. I’ve leveled single characters to 70 in less than 3 months, it’s been 4 and with all of the leveling bonuses these mages are still 47.

Granted, in the time since I started them I’ve had a busy life. A week after they were born, my girlfriend and I who were “talking about living together” found a place and signed the lease, within 2 days. This led to 2 weeks of packing, moving and unpacking. Then it was, Hey I live with someone who I want to see every night. I should cut down my WoW schedule to just 2 nights(raids) and spend the rest of the time the way I want to (with her). This led to me playing Maerdred much more often on Saturday’s when she works rather than the mages, as I had raid prep and Herb farming for flasks and stuff to do.

So that project went away. I then decided I wanted to start work on a book, you know like those crazy NaNoWriMo people… Well, that hasn’t gotten off the ground at all. I haven’t even started brainstorming for my outline yet.

After that project I decided that since DA2 came out, I may as well finish DA:O, and I still haven’t done that.

I then looked at the rest of my games and decided I should spend some time trying to finish some of the ones that have been sticking around. Gears of War 2. Halo: Reach, Crackdown, Mass Effect, Bioshock, Bioshock 2…

Yeah, no progress on that front at all.

My life has taken over. My DVR is constantly 75% full or more. My stack of unread books has not shrunk at all. My Video Game life has become a sham. I’ve quit raiding so I can spend even more time with my GF (not at her request). I’ve pretty much become a one trick pony.

Each time I try to do something without her, I feel guilty, which is in no way her fault. I feel zero resentment. I just want to be with her instead. I fear that if I keep this up, I will have GF Burnout.

I’ll have to take steps to stave that off.

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