Yeah. We're that cool. Nymphadora is taking all the day staffs' pictures and making a Brady Bunch themed, meet-the-office display. It's gonna be fantastic.
Our canvassers started yesterday. I realized (to my dismay) that one of the canvassers who I go to school with still won't talk to me due to campus drama. That's fun. An exercise in professionalism I guess. I really hope we can at least move towards a working relationship again. D was joking about holding a reconciliation event for the two of us at the same time we hold one for all the Clinton and Obama people.
Yesterday I organized the list of people who came to the Obama meeting on Monday and filled out the contact list so it was actually useful for our field team. I'm impressed at my online resourcefulness. I'm getting way good at finding all sorts of information and exploring websites.
Yesterday I also had two more interviews for paid employment. The first went horribly, but the manager I interviewed with also said that they were more looking for people who could be around over the winter holidays, rather than summer workers. So I'm okay that didn't go well, even if I'm annoyed that I wasted my time interviewing and applying. The second interview, the manager seemed checked out of, but she hired me with the warning of "you're a lot more mature than most of the other people who work here." Didn't really know what to do with that, but I've got a job starting next week, I've just got to find some black tops and buy another pair of jeans.
I put my online researching skills to the test again today and finished the College Report. I'm actually really impressed that I found course listings for all the schools. I mean, Coe hides those inside the student only section of our website, but I found ways to get at it on the other sites.
Now I'm not sure what to do with myself. D's training the canvassers and thus can't give me a new job, but I finished my to-do list. I still need to rearrange the conference room, but the canvassers are in there. I could work on more updates to the "God List," but technology thwarts me there too - D put the spreadsheet on Google Docs, but I can't access it yet, because he forgot to share it with me. So I'm a little bored. Hence the post.
Hmm... How're those goals coming?
I think I'm learning a lot about party structure and function and how campaigns work at a basic level. I know I have a better understanding of how the party is organized, at least here in this county. Something that baffles me is the lack of overall organization. See, each county in this state has it's own Democratic party. Then, the state party has also divided the state into regions for the field campaign - D is the regional field director for region 4; I'm the region 4 intern. Thing is, not all the precinct that R4 covers are completely contained within R4 - one of the state senators J is overseeing has a precinct that extends into the county and region to the south of us. So we're overlapping staff there. Also, the national party and the Obama campaign has divided up the territory differently too. So today we had an Obama volunteer here at our office, looking for the Obama staffer, but he's in Iowa City. It seems like it would be beneficial to somehow divide the territory in a uniform way - at least so the Coordinated Campaign is working with all the same people and has everyone in a common office with satellites if need be.
I haven't done any data entry recently, so I'm not sure if I'm getting faster all that quickly. I am getting better at researching and creating those spreadsheets that are so all-important.
The cool thing about our office is that D, M (aka JKR), JR (aka Semi-Colin) and I are all working on the same projects a lot of the time, but we prioritize them differently. For me, the needs list is a pretty important thing, while the Master List is more important to JKR and Semi-Colin. So, if I'm needing a new task and updating the needs list and checking on the Master List are both important, I know JKR and Semi-Colin are on the Master List, so I should update and republish the needs list. It breaks down the tasks one more time; keeps our eyes on the prize...
Other exciting developments this week:
- Obama has basically clinched the nomination, so we've gotten back to decorating the office with Obama paraphernalia, now that we are free to do so. D spent a good twenty minutes making sure a huge wooden Obama logo was centered and stable in the window this morning, running in and out the door, slightly repositioning the circle, checking it, re-repositioning it, until it was just perfect.
- Federal House Democrats started the LGBT Equality caucus as a part of the party in that body.
- We're ten days away from state convention!
- All of the incumbents won their primary races, so we in the office can officially endorse them too.
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