He tries to laugh at the question, but it comes out a little more choked than he means for it to.

"I don't know what's brought it on," he says at last, figuring if he's to start anywhere, it should be there. "Stress, or-- or just that I've been here for near on two years or--"

He just shakes his head and he almost wants to laugh again. Oh, good. Now he's just moving toward hysteria.

"Maybe it's just a delayed reaction to the nonsense in October. I don't know."