I'm taking a mental health day. I have this unfortunate tendancy to feel horribly guilty about taking a day off work, even if I'm genuinely sick. Last night I started to have that "not so sane feeling," which is hard to explain to your boss, but I think it's a good excuse for a day off. I call it the flu, but I worry that I might actually have Chevy Chase syndrome.

Chevy Chase syndrome is an often-misdiagnosed condition in which one wakes up one morning to discover that he/she no longer has a working sense of humor. It's over, gone, done for (in the medical literature they site "Fletch 2" as an example). Your funny bone done been broken.

I don't know of any studies that confirm it, but I hypothosize that prolonged exposure to government grants can have this effect. Most grants, particularly DYCD OST RFP contract proposals, are written by and for entirely humorless individuals.

Maybe I could write a grant for Federal funding to do the research on this rare, yet tragic condition?
- posted by Marguerite @ 10:17 AM

 
I've been a bit remiss with writing/reading blogs. See, it's currently 3:22 AM (as in, in the morning/night)and I am STILL AT WORK, where I have been since precicely 8:30 AM, bypassing PM altogether.

We have a huge DYCD proposal due tomorrow. Actually, it's the DYCD OST RFP for EHTP. (No joke.) A city government contract. I've been working 10-12 hours a day for weeks, as have the other two people in the department. Just the guidelines for the proposal were 174 pages (again, no joke). We found out we were doing this on January 19, and we're doing 3 of them. One went out today - it was 3 inches thick.

3:26 am. Can't see straight anymore.
- posted by Marguerite @ 10:01 PM

 
It occurs to me as I sit here at work at 6:39 PM, after hardly so much as getting up to go to the bathroom all day, that the whole "notes from the underemployed" tagline of this blog is a wee bit out of date.

Sigh.

So, if anyone's still tuning in, it's time for my first-ever Blog-Naming Contest!!! I'm working too much and feeling too braindead right now to try and think up a new name/ schtick, etc. The winner will receive a brand new pair of asparagus tongs (no joke).

The name has to actually be available, but other than that, this contest has no actual guidelines. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited.

- posted by Marguerite @ 3:36 PM