I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.' I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.

Fey’s invented word “blorft” humorously names a modern, familiar state: being overloaded while maintaining a façade of competence. By defining it with comic precision—overwhelmed, yet carrying on with possum-like torpor—she captures how stress can produce emotional numbness rather than visible panic. The line also satirizes the culture of relentless productivity, where chronic strain becomes normalized (“every day for the past seven years”). The joke works as both self-deprecation and social commentary: language is stretched to describe experiences that feel too common for existing vocabulary, and humor becomes a coping mechanism for sustained pressure.