The phrase "assign myself" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of designating oneself for a task or responsibility.
Example: "I decided to assign myself the role of project manager for this initiative."
Alternatives: "designate myself" or "allocate myself".
"When I go to sleep I assign myself a problem, without trying to solve the problem," he said.
(CODA: The next time I'm stuck awake at night worrying, I'm going to assign myself the task of assembling as many existing songs on the topic as I can think of and making a mix CD. Suggestions?) Go to a comic version of this post » Read previous essays and comics by Jeffrey Lewis at the opinion series Measure for Measure.
Kelley, asked by The Saturday Evening Post to cover the subsequent murder trial, grew disgusted with the bias in the judicial system, and vowed to leave the country again: "I wouldn't assign myself the task of announcing that our little rebellion had failed, that racism had won again for a while.
I do not want to assign myself a pro or anti label.
I have found if I assign myself a project or goal that is unique and gigantic, it pushes my mind in new ways.
Because I'm 'well,' and perhaps because I'm still desperate to make sense of my own senseless diagnosis, I assign myself responsibility to them.
Months later, I assigned myself the task of making five volumes, of forty songs each, largely to see what, if anything, my brain would do.
I remain, I who spend a large part of my day reading and writing, because I have assigned myself the task of describing.
I assigned myself the task of finding school backpacks, T-shirts and a 64-gigabyte iPod Touch, and I drove to a stretch of road in suburban Connecticut with a mall and nearly every one of the big-box stores.
Anticipating that this dinner was going to jump the shark, I had assigned myself the porchetta — roast pig — which I craftily planned to buy at one of those mobile butcher vans that are scattered at daily markets across Umbria.
Last year, I assigned myself the task of persuading him to overlook his disappointments with Obama and the Democratic Congress and vote for his local representative, a moderate (by downstate standards) Democrat named Tim Bishop.
