Dear NPR Pledge Drive,

Not only are you a burden, causing 12 and 13 hour days for staff, understandable listener complaints, and  interruptions in fantastic programming, you come with all sorts of diabetes implications.  You are not nice.  I do not like you very much.

Sure, you raise the majority of my funds that keep programming on the air and you are a necessary evil, I get it.  

Sure, you give us a chance to tell the stories behind the programming, I get that too.

But you get me up at 4:45 AM several days in a week and keep me on the clock through 7:00 PM.  This seriously screws with my body's schedule and sends my bloodsugars into overdrive rollercoaster mode.  It also makes it nearly impossible to exercise without falling over and hurting myself. 

In addition, the food, Pledge Drive!  We've got hungry volunteers and staff who clearly need chocolate and cookies and hummus and chips and enough junk to cause a coma (both the food and the hyperglycemic kinds), but you attract way too much white flour, processed nasties.  Sure, it's easy food and it doesn't require cooking and cleaning that our staff doesn't have time for, but enough is enough.  

Although I recognize how much you're needed, I am annoyed with what you've done with my last two weeks of bloodsugars and activity level.   And I can't wait until you're gone - until September.

Thank goodness for summer and your absence.  You're killing me, dude.

Sincerely,

Nicole