I know! I know! Pick me!

Everyone retires... eventually. Some of us want to retire early, some don't want to retire at all.

So, when someone retires without explanation, it raises questions.

Jim Judd, who has worked in the public service for 36 years, has informed the prime minister that he'll retire within months, sources close to the Prime Minister's Office have confirmed.

As director of CSIS, Judd has presided over an extraordinary growth of the organization. He leaves at a delicate time, with the spy agency under pressure to prepare for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver and to provide increased field intelligence from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.

The CBC's Brian Stewart said there is nothing at this time to suggest Judd is leaving under pressure or in anger.

Perhaps he just doesn't want to deal with the fallout from the Olympic games.

Naw... he's well up to that task.

Maybe he's just looking to retire a little early. Makes me wonder however, since, as a much younger person, I intend to work until I can't lift a pencil. When the job is good, you hang on as long as you can.

Maybe he's looking at that great benefit offered by the Canada Pension Plan.

Umm... nope.

Maybe he was told to take the pressure off a cabinet minister.

And he told the PMO that nobody was going to pin that shit on him.