The phrase "assigned myself" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of designating a task or responsibility to oneself.
Example: "I assigned myself the task of organizing the team meeting for next week."
Alternatives: "designated myself" or "allocated myself".
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.
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.
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.
Stravinsky once wrote that he could only be creative by working within strict constraints: "My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings".
"When I go to sleep I assign myself a problem, without trying to solve the problem," he said.
Once I'd adjusted to the heat and the slow pace, I began leaving my aerie at La Finca more often, assigning myself the serious task of choosing my favorite among the island's many restaurants.
(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.
