Back from outer space.

It really must be something about February. I've mixed feelings about ending the second month of 2006. On the one hand, I'd really like to start a new one. But on the other hand, I hate to see the year go by so quickly. I know it's 2006, but I'm still not "here" yet. I can barely muster returning emails (I'm not usually one of "thos" people) and I've been dodging phone calls lately, too. I've not been anti-social, really. Nor have I been busy. I've just been out of it and continue to be. But, as promised, here I am with Monday night post. Kinda like Monday Night Football - only not as gay.

Today I got a great chance to play my favorite waiting room game - Crazy or Broken? Click on the link if you're just joing us or don't remember the post where I intro'd this new American pasttime. When you're waiting for your perpetually late shrink, you get creative cause you can only read the same issue of Los Angeles Confidential magazine so many times.

Anyhow, today I was in with a girl who had been waiting 45 minutes when I arrived 10 minutes late for my appointment. I knew immediately she was a Crazy and not a Broken. Hearing her make/cancel/re-make/re-cancel plans on her cell phone confirmed my OCD suspicions. She then proceeded to tell me that she'd been coming for 5 years. "Oh. So you're a pro at the waiting game then," was all I could manage to say. The Doc told me he expected that I should be off my meds in about 8-10 months if all goes well. I guess she really likes waiting.

And again I ask: is it really wise to play adult contemporary in the waiting room of a psychiatrists' office? At one point, the inane DJ mentioned George Michael's drug arrest and then proceeded to play "Father Figure." Like most of us who were in grade school when Faith was released, I have nostalgic memories of George and his bum shaking in those tight jeans. But really, I was just happy to move on from The Bee Gees. But they didn't make me homicidal. I guess the drugs are working.

Night, kids!

-J.

This post was sponsored by the Hugs and Drugs Committee.