Ok, so I haven’t posted in almost two weeks now. I’ve been so busy! I was hired on as a Field Organizer for the Hillary Clinton for President campaign … that’s right, a paid staffer on a presidential campaign! While I’m loving EVERY MINUTE OF IT … the hours are wicked crazy. I barely have time to sleep and shower, let alone write [i just had to correct myself. When I posted and looked back, I had spelled write "righ" ... I'm slowing going crazy due to lack of sleep and too much diet coke. A bad combo!] a detailed blog!

However, I did get this email today from a co-worker. I thought it was funny and explained my current life oh so well! Enjoy!

You know you’re a political staffer when…

• Indy is not a form of music
• No one looks at you funny when you sleep at the office
• A perfect boyfriend/girlfriend is someone who can actually put up with your work hours
• You know that perfect person doesn’t exist
• You work insane hours for little money
• And you love it
• Your friends visit your office to make sure you’re still alive
• Therapy is something you wish you could get for free after the election
• Your track record, has nothing to do with sports
• Your best friend’s name is Blackberry
• You have thrown your best friend once or twice
• You have played some kind of sport in your office at least once (i.e. baseball, kickball, football, basketball, etc.)
• A reporter or your candidate has walked in on it at least once
• You have come to work when you look like you’re about to keel over and die
• And you did it by choice
• Your car doubles as a closet during campaign season because frankly, you’re not quite sure when you’ll get home
• You have gone 48 hours plus without sleep
• Your closest friends names’ are Jack, Jim, Jose, and Captain Morgan
• You live off of coffee and cigarettes
• Your desk kind of reminds you of the movie Twister, well after the tornado hit
• You watch either 24 or the West Wing compulsively
• When your power goes out or your telephone is disconnected you immediately blame it on the Democrats, or Republicans
• You have encountered at least 3 volunteers whom you are sure escaped from a Mental Institution
• All your friends say how “professional and cute” you look while you’re running around on your blackberry trying to prevent Armageddon
• Time is measured in cycles instead of years.
• You know your opponet’s family better than your own
• When you work in an office where a mental patient can wander in and you have to pretend like what they are saying is being considered to be reviewed by your boss
• You’ve made it onto some politico’s blacklist.
• you’ve ever gotten dressed/done your make-up/ in a gas station bathroom on your way to an event
• you hear “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” on the radio and laugh.
• you’ve made at least one campaign stop that involves a country store, a county fair, a pie eating contest, or a prize ham. Possibly all of the above.
• know its not odd to have someone from senior staff call you at weird times of the day for random projects that must be finished in less than a half hour
• steal your friends blackberries and start sending love notes to other staffers
• When everyone at work knows about your personal life.. Privacy? Whats that?
• When you’ve seen politicians do more odd things than some of your volunteers
• You cringe at the word “phone bank”
• When you do quasi-legal stuff like OPERATION MIDNIGHT SIGN DROP LITTER ALFA WOLF SQUADRON.
• you get a BB message between 1-6 am asking for the number of “that one person i met that that meeting i had two weeks ago”
• You know your boss’s choice of food better than you know what you enjoy eating.

Love you all! I’ll try to write again before the May 6th Primaries!! Go HIllary!! — Brit