I Missed The Democratic Caucus Tonight
Like the title says, I missed the Democratic Caucus tonight. Oh well. I got off of work on time and to be honest, I really didn’t want to go to it anyways, so I don’t feel like I missed out on anything.
My Mom really wanted to go though so I agreed to take her down. The polling place was a school that is a little over 5 minutes away - with no traffic. It took us almost 30 minutes to get there because there was sooo much traffic. I could see from the street that the place was packed - really packed. It was awesome.
I knew that the caucus place was going to br crowded and I highly suspected that a lot more people were going to show up than predicted, but my Mom was like, “oh no, we can just leave at 6:30. It won’t be too bad.” Hahahahhahaah. I wouldn’t be surprised if at least 1000 people showed up at my caucus place - there were that many people.
It was funny at one point though because I got stuck in the middle of a block and my Mom was like, “let me out here and I’ll walk to the end of the block, to the end of the line.” I was like, “yea, right. are you kidding me?” My Mom can’t even walk from her door to the car without getting out of breath - let alone walk an entire block - that’s how out of shape she is. Well, she didn’t get out of the car, thank goodness. If she did, she would probably be complaining for days about how sore her legs were.
I did drive to the entrance of the parking lot, just to see how packed it was and it was so packed, an attendant was there and had actually closed the entrance, so it wasn’t like we would have gotten in there anyways. We headed away from there and I decided to drive by this other school that was also a caucus polling place and they didn’t seem as crowded as the other one.
We then decided to get dinner and man, I ate too much. I am really disappointed in myself for doing that. I ordered a sandwich and a salad and was only going to eat maybe a 1/4 of the sandwich and the salad, but I ate half and then ate the second half at home tonight. Grrrr. Why did I do that? I really wasn’t that hungry. Grrrrr. Now my belly is completely bloated and my digestive system is upset.
Well, I suspect my digestive system is upset for other reasons - mainly the stress. I was handling the stress pretty well for the first couple of months, but everything went out of whack when the 2 clerks had a family emergency and they both couldn’t come to work, and I got to be assigned the committee clerk for the day. That day wasn’t too bad, but I was freaking out that they weren’t going to come in the next day and we had a hearing that day. Thankfully they did both come in, but I know I am still worried that something else is going to happen and I am yet again going to have to do the work of 3 people. I think I am doing the amount of work for 1.5 people right now since I am doing my own stuff and I now regularly help the committee out.
Ugh, it’s just getting to be too much for me and I don’t know how to tell my boss to lay off the work load. I had a bunch of stuff to do today, but since one of the clerks didn’t show up, I had to sit in on a hearing - which was okay since we didn’t have to do anything, except that I couldn’t do half of my work today, so it’s going to be there for me tomorrow, but I have a meeting I have to go to in the afternoon, so I am only going to be spending about a half day in the office. I don’t mind going to some meetings if they are in the building or within walking distance, but I really don’t like the off site meetings since I am not being reimbursed for any gas and again, I know I am not getting paid enough for all of the work that I do.
I just have a little less than 2.5 months to go and I am so ready for a nice mini vacation. But my OM keeps telling me that she would like to me stay on after the session ends and I don’t know how I feel about that. I mean, it would be nice to have a steady job, but, well for one thing, I am pretty sure that it is not in the budget to have 3 permanent staff members, even if 1 is part time and 2) knowing what I know now, I still don’t know if I want to keep working there.
There are a lot of things wrong with the office, but there are a lot of things that could be improved upon as well - but there would basically have to be some kind of stop in the work flow in order for any changes to be implemented - in my opinion that is - and I don’t know if something like that is even possible.
Oooof, it’s late. I really need to sleep more. Well, what I really need to do is to manage my time better so I can actually get things done around my house and organize my life more.
Oh and I’ve removed my password protected posts. Why? Well, because the security wasn’t what I thought it was and until I can figure out how to make it more secure - or change blogging software - or just change web host providers, I am going to keep those posts private for the time being.
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