My Big Promotion

My volunteer duties at the Cantwell campaign are pretty ordinary, usually stuffing envelopes or making copies, although once I got to shred some fundraising notebooks. I absolutely don't mind this sorts of duties... anything not to make phone calls. But when I arrived today there was a note written especially to moi from one of the staffers with an assignment to create two spreadsheets for names of people who want to be removed from the mailing list or who have removed themselves by virtue of dying. (These are names from rented lists who don't appear in our main database. Little detail).

So I'm typing away and remembering how much I like using a number pad and how annoying it is that my laptop doesn't have one when another staffer comes to give me more background on why I'm doing what I'm doing and then mentions that they want me to be the "point person" on this project. I assume that means that whenever there are names to add, I'll be the one typing them. But I mentioned that I would need a tiara and apparently there is one floating around the office so, yeah me. I am a fan of the tiara.

And here's a little scoop...there's some big vote in the Senate on Friday. Senator Clinton was coming here for a benefit lunch with Maria but now they have to be in DC. Assumption around the office was that it has to do with the Patriot Act but apparently the Republican leadership are being all hush-hushy about whatever is afoot. Ooh, drama. This does not, however, mean that I'll be glued to CSPAN on Friday. I'll be out on an annual Christmas shopping/lunch expedition with friends. I was going to miss it because of the luncheon but thanks to Bill Frist I get to go after all. Me saying something nice about Dr. Frist? Must be Christmastime.