Can someone please look into the DSM IV and tell me what the clinical diagnosis is for an individual who can not grasp the concept that other individuals do NOT reside in HER mind, nor are they privy to her private thoughts and actions. I have a client with this disorder.

Last week she sent me an e-mail and asked me to get her something that looked just like what she was holding in her hand. Now today I received and e-mail asking me what she had just done wrong with a file. SHE WORKS IN A DIFFERENT BUILDING. How should I know?

(Now this is not a case of “Devil Wears Prada” where she simply delights in assigning the impossible, etc. My client just seems unaware.)

Perhaps I am taking it all wrong and the truth is…she has at last realized that I am omniscient! Only, I’m also malicious enough to keep my great talents hidden and refuse to help her.

I need to blog consistently over the next few days, just to move that damn spinning chick into the archives.

She’s starting to make me nauseous!

Do you see the image above spinning clockwise, or counter-clockwise.
(Details in comments.)

I did not have textual relations with that document.

Some folks in the office thought the news story about the man whose life was saved by a Vodka IV offered a wonderful solution for morale around here.
But one colleague upped the ante when she recommended a “Valium Lick.”

Sure, there might be a little jostling in line at first, but I’m certain things would become much more congenial and a sharing mood would prevail.

My co-worker left for maternity leave just a few days before her baby was due. Of course we all had a baby shower for her and we kept up on the details of her pregnancy and everyone was really excited for her. A week or so before she left she experienced some medical challenges that could have effected her delivery/birth. Needless to say we were all anxious to hear the news. A week past. No news. Another week. Still no news. By the third week we had all begun to fear the worst. Several colleagues sent inquiring messages to both her and her husband. No response. We feared the worst.

That was almost 3 months ago and she is due back to work tomorrow. The problem is…she just sent a message to 2 of my colleagues and indicated that “She’s fine, the baby is fine. Things are great at home and she’s surprised how time has flown. Can’t wait to see you all.”

Now is it just me or does that BLOW every unspoken, social convention around new babies?!?!?! No birth announcement, no pictures, no “everything’s fine”, nada!

Whisky Tango Foxtrot!