As of two minutes ago, I am seriously concerned that I am getting dumber. This concern stems from, most recently, the fact that I misspelled the name of the person whose signature I was forging on a child's birthday card immediately after having it spelled to me, then spelled "dumber" "dummer" when trying to recount this same incident via gchat. Which I guess reflects a problem not so much of intelligence lost (though I imagine I've also lost some of my critical reasoning skills, those get tested less frequently at the office) but mental acuity, sharpness.

Basically, I think I'm losing my edge. And maybe reaction time.

The only solution I can conceive of, at the moment, would be to administer a series of timed exams to myself (I used to be great at timed exams!) or maybe try to teach myself new Photoshop tricks and then apply them under deadline. Either of these would be kind of weird and probably not very useful, but as I spend more time stumbling through the day, I'm starting to feel like my connection to reality is slipping. Like I have trouble remembering conversations I had while sober. But I'm having really vivid dreams. Which is no good.