I just would never really leave the house if I didn't have to. Not because I don't want to do things, but everything seems like so much work and sitting is easier.

This is how I start feeling when the depression starts getting bad. Also with everything feeling like a chore. I hope very much that you can find a good therapist and good meds and get to feeling better again soon.

My thinking is all of the close-in hotels will be booked up too

Yeah, it looks like this has turned into a mess. The staff are being asked to give up their rooms in the conference hotel so they can house all the volunteers, which, of course we have to get the VIPs in the hotel, but staff are angry at being "kicked out" because someone underbooked. I'm trying to give them a head's-up so they don't discover on the way to the conference at 7am on Friday morning that they didn't allow enough time for the commute.

Ooh, that sounds like a cluster.

BTW: Does anyone else just say cluster when they mean cluster fuck? My mother was like, "That is not a thing."

Jesse, it is a thing. Even if it's just a you and me thing.

I say cluster in company wherein I don't want to say fuck.

BTW: Does anyone else just say cluster when they mean cluster fuck? My mother was like, "That is not a thing."

I say "fuster cluck."

Zen, it's going to be bad. DC traffic has gotten worse and Metro has become even more unreliable in the past few months. I can understand why they want to put the volunteers in the conference hotel, but staff are going to have to be in earlier and stay later, right? At least, that's how it's worked in the associations I've worked at.

My mother was like, "That is not a thing."

Stop trying to make cluster happen, Jesse!

I can understand why they want to put the volunteers in the conference hotel, but staff are going to have to be in earlier and stay later, right?

Staff who are involved in setup will stay in the conference hotel, I'm sure, but staff like me, who are there to hover around the volunteers and make sure they have everything they need, are expected to be there by 8am for the breakfast, and that's what I'm worried about. Our organizers, who weren't aware of the cherry blossom festival, are likely not aware that the traffic is so bad and Google Maps may not be accurate about how long it really takes to get around! So I'm foreseeing people arriving late and very annoyed, and bosses getting mad about it. I doubt they have any choice, at this point, other than housing people in MD, I just want everyone to be aware that we aren't going to leave our hotels in our fancy business clothes and be at the conference hotel in ten minutes all chipper and unwrinkled.

I just would never really leave the house if I didn't have to. Not because I don't want to do things, but everything seems like so much work and sitting is easier.

This is how I start feeling when the depression starts getting bad. Also with everything feeling like a chore. I hope very much that you can find a good therapist and good meds and get to feeling better again soon.

Hmmm. I have no idea how to go about fixing this. Nor do I know if it's situational or chronic at this point.