Is it Friday yet?

Did you ever wonder what a rock dipped in chocolate tasted like? Have you ever had the urge to start a fire using a wad of gum and some lighter fluid? Do you often dream about dancing on a dewy meadow or on Burt Reynolds chest? Have you ever found yourself humming the Romanian National Anthem on your way to what you believe is work, but turns out to be an airport? Do images of swans the size of footballs pillaging underwater vegetation rattle through your mind at night? Does the idea of mountain climbing in the Ozarks with nothing but some rope, a stapler and Nell Carter sound like a great Saturday to you? Ever played a game of Rocks, Paper, Scissors without an opponent? Are you afraid that if you don't eat 3 pieces of celery at three o'clock every 3 days that you will catch Malaria? When you close your eyes do you ever see a bottle of Mrs. Butterworth's syrup juggling a dozen oranges? How about when your eyes are open?
-If you answered yes to one or more of these questions than you might want to talk with a mental health professional or a really good bank teller. Being a mental health professional and not a bank teller, I hear some outlandish stuff on a semi daily basis, but most of it's from my co-workers(kidding). People have asked me, "how I can work in the type of environment I work in or work with the kind of people I work with?" And although my response isn't very profound, "I just can or I've grown accustomed/adapted to it." It's the truth. I see the people I work with as individuals that were stricken with illnesses and I can empathize. Is it sad and depressing (at times) stressful (you bet), but it can also be extremely rewarding and it gives me the ability to enrich another life. I've been doing this sort of work for going on nine years and unless my sock puppet theatre takes off or I get the job at the pretzel factory (cross your fingers) I'll make it to ten.